So, I decided to perform a full system security audit of my Windows PC. It revealed something a bit concerning: software that ...

Open this utility by clicking on Autoruns.exe. From Options > Filter options, you may want to first select the Verify Code Signatures and Hide Signed Microsoft Entries. Check these two and hit the ...

Autoruns displays everything that runs automatically when Windows starts -- and we mean everything. It displays location, association, and order of autorun entries in boot and log-in sequences, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As you can see on the lead-in image above, when you right-click on the invalid entry (in this case OneDrive), the Open file location option would be grayed out if the executable doesn’t exist in the ...

A lot of applications start up when you boot your Windows computer—probably more than you'd like. You can turn off some of these in Windows Settings under Apps > Startup, and others in the settings ...

Autoruns shows what processes start up automatically in your PC. Here, it lets you save a baseline document listing everything it's found. Later, you can compare the current set of autorun entries ...

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 ...