A recent update to Microsoft's Sysinternals Autoruns program is causing the program to crash as its scans for autostarts in Windows. For those not familiar with Autoruns, it is a free utility from ...

Autoruns 9 reveals every single program and process that launches automatically on your computer. It's especially useful for detecting malware, since almost every malicious program needs some way to ...

The Task Manager utility doesn't always provide the information you need to decide whether your system's auto-start apps really need to load each time your PC boots. No such worries with Autoruns.

Operating systems need at least a minimum of maintenance to run properly over the long term. While some important tools are already included from Microsoft, many professionals want or need more ...

I was fired up after reading your response about slow PCs. I downloaded AutoRuns and was shown over 150 line items and did not know what to do. Here is one line item: vsmraid VIA RAID DRIVER FOR ...

Over time, every computer gets more and more junk, er, software, added to its autostart locations. What starts out as a happy user experience, in which a PC owner is pleased with the performance of ...

Auditing your registry can turn up telltale signs on malware infection. Here's how to monitor the registry keys that matter using Microsoft's Sysinternals Autoruns. With hundreds of millions of ...

I often recommend using Windows's MSCONFIG utility to disable all the startup items on a slow computer. Doing helps performance, and you can re-enable the ones you really want to start up ...