Read.ai is an AI-enabled meeting transcription tool. I’ve used a couple of them, and so far, my experience has been terrible: they activate when you don’t want them to (such as when you’ve scheduled a ‘meeting’ with yourself to ‘focus’ on stuff), and they don’t activate when you do want them to.
Worse (and I know, I’m not on topic yet) … they pretend to be transcribing your meeting notes and then they actually don’t. The only thing worse than not being able to read your notes after a meeting is not having notes because you entrusted them to some stupid app.
The other thing that every AI meeting tool I’ve tried has done is … once you’ve installed it once, no matter how many times you try to uninstall it, it tries to install again when you start up your computer. (This behavior certainly is not limited to AI apps. Snagit, which I recommend and still use, has an annoying habit of starting when it’s not needed and then quitting when you’re using it.)
Here’s how to stop it (along with anything else that may be behaving this way!)
- Start up Task Manager. You do that by hitting “CTRL-ALT-DELETE,” a venerable key combination that’s been around at least since 1986.
- Click the “Startup apps” tab. (The icon looks like a little speedometer, and it may be on the left of your dialog box instead of at the top, a little more than halfway down. Yea, they don’t make this easy.)
- Scroll down to find the app that’s annoying you. Right click it, and choose “Disable.”
- While you’re there … look for other unwanted apps that may be launching on startup. Many apps automatically set their installers to launch on startup, possibly because they assume you never meant to delete these apps. Spammy! Disable the f----rs. The benefits? These apps won’t interrupt your workflow at random times when you don’t really want them to, and your computer will likely start up faster.
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