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Task Manager is telling me I have utterly useless processes running in the background, like Candy Crush Saga (which I don't play), and NVIDIA Streamer Service (I don't own an NVIDIA graphics card any more).

But in the the Start-up tab, there are only a few items and they're not related to these processes. I checked in msconfig, but the Startup tab of that no longer seems to exist, just a message directing me to the Start-up tab of Task Manager.

How are these tasks starting, and how can I disable them?

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For non-Metro apps in general, use Autoruns. If you don't want to just uninstall the service, disable it from Service snap in Computer Management. If you don't want to just uninstall the Metro app (literally just right click and uninstall it), remove its Lock Screen permission either from Control Panel's centralized permission list or the app configuration pane.

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