Manage startup programs with AutoRuns

In a previous article, we’ve talked about Startup Optimizer, a great freeware program for managing startup applications. Startup Optimizer is good for the average user because it only displays the basic programs and also labels them as safe or harmful (although not 100% accurate). If you are an advanced user, then you will need to know even more programs that start at the same time with Windows. This is when AutoRuns comes in handy.

AutoRuns is a free of charge startup manager that will display all startup applications. The program doesn’t require installation, just a simple double-click on autoruns.exe.

You are able to see the applications in your startup folder, Services, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. In fact, you can enable/disable each driver, DLL file, Internet Explorer add-on and more.

Activate the Hide Signed Microsoft Entries option to hide images that are signed by Microsoft; those don’t pose any threat. After some tweaking and tuning, restart your PC. Your computer’s bootup time should improve.

AutoRunsc is the command-line version of AutoRuns.

The download is less than 1MB. Available for all Windows versions.

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