Windows 10: How to manage apps that add themselves to the startup list and then block sleep.

I have a Windows 11 system that forgets how to sleep or restart. As i have done everything including restarting the operating system to fix this, the solution seems to be some apps that add themselves to the list of startup programs and then are difficult to unload. I had problems with Fing doing this and their tech support said I could have checked a box to avoid the startup loading. More recently Samsung Magician did the same thing adding itself to the startup list and without any obvious way to "close" the app I had to exit using the Task Manager. The commonality appears the decision of the

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My pc takes for ever to shut down when i restart

Suggest cleaning up your startup list .There may be many services / Apps you can remove on startup which is not needed on boot or during shutdown.
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blocking apps

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps:

• Log in to https://familysafety.microsoft.com/ using your Microsoft Email account.
• Find the user that is correspond to the computer account on the Windows that you are having issue with.
• Click on "App Restrictions".
• Under App Restrictions, click on "App list".
• Here, you can Allow or Block the Apps/Games that you want.

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

Thank you.