Microsoft is giving its Office apps a speed boost

Microsoft is readying to amended the startup velocity of its Office apps, starting with Word successful May. The motorboat times of Office apps volition amended acknowledgment to a caller scheduled task that volition tally silently erstwhile you footwear your PC to marque definite Word and yet different Office apps unfastened quickly.

“We are introducing a caller Startup Boost task from the Microsoft Office installer to optimize show and load-time of experiences wrong Office applications,” explains Microsoft successful a message to IT admins. “After the strategy performs the task, the app remains successful a paused authorities until the app launches and the series resumes, oregon the strategy removes the app from representation to reclaim resources.”

Word volition beryllium the archetypal app to get this Startup Boost starting successful May, and Microsoft says “support for further applications volition travel successful aboriginal updates.” Startup Boost volition lone beryllium disposable for PCs with astatine slightest 8GB of RAM and 5GB of disposable disk space. Startup Boost volition besides beryllium disabled erstwhile Energy Saver mode is active.

If you don’t privation Office apps to commencement softly successful the inheritance astatine footwear past determination volition beryllium an enactment wrong Word to disable this behavior. You tin ever delete the scheduled task too, but Microsoft notes that the Office installer volition recreate the task erstwhile it applies an update, truthful IT admins volition person to negociate this done the in-app mounting instead.

Microsoft uses a fig of scheduled tasks to tally Windows tasks silently and optimize the operating system, but they’re not utilized regularly by astir app developers. Google uses a scheduled task for its Chrome updater, and galore OEMs usage tasks to update drivers and different strategy components, but astir different apps similar Adobe Creative Suite tally startup processes successful the regular startup conception of Windows, wherever they tin easy beryllium disabled.