How to Remove Startup Applications in Ubuntu

Startup applications and scripts when Ubuntu boots or reboots. They allow you to automate tasks on startup. But sometimes you may want to disable startup applications in Ubuntu. Here are the steps to remove startup applications in Ubuntu.

How to Remove Startup Applications in Ubuntu

It is very easy to remove startup applications and scripts in Ubuntu. Here is the syntax to disable application at startup.

sudo update-rc.d -f application_name remove

In the above command, replace application_name with the name of application that you want to disable on startup. Here are couple of examples to remove apache2 and MySQL from startup.

sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 remove
sudo update-rc.d -f mysql remove

Alternatively, you may also use the following command.

sudo update-rc.d -f application_name disable

Here are the above examples with this syntax.

sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 disable
sudo update-rc.d -f mysql disable

If your applications & programs have been set up as services, you can also use systemctl command to disable them at startup.

sudo systemctl disable service_name

Here are a couple of examples for the above command.

sudo systemctl disable mysql
sudo systemctl disable apache2

In this short article, we have learnt a couple of ways to disable startup applications in Ubuntu.

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