Sonar plug-in dll's -- do they need to start up when Windows boots?

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2012/07/09 15:59:17 (permalink)

Sonar plug-in dll's -- do they need to start up when Windows boots?

As part of an effort to reduce Win 7's boot time caused by unnecessary programs and services starting up, I used "autoruns" from Microsoft to list everything that starts when Windows boots. In the list, I saw dozens of .dlls that are related to audio plugins and soft synths that are available in Sonar. Some examples: Sonitus plugins, Cakewalk's native plugins such as Cakewalk Pitch Shifter, Cyclone, TSS-1. Autoruns lists the image path as the Cakewalk shared plugins folder. Is it necessary to have these items start at boot time? If I remove them from boot-time start up, will they start up automatically, either when I open Sonar, or when I use the plugins or synth in a Sonar project?
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    John
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    Re:Sonar plug-in dll's -- do they need to start up when Windows boots? 2012/07/09 18:09:30 (permalink)
    These are most likely DX plugins that would need to startup when Windows starts. I wouldn't worry about them they take only a tiny bit of memory.

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    Re:Sonar plug-in dll's -- do they need to start up when Windows boots? 2012/07/10 09:10:56 (permalink)
    I like the autoruns tool though. Thanks for pointing it out. 

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