Malware as it is comes in many forms. Sometimes there are viruses that will lock your antivirus program and render it unusable. What do you do to escape this? There are several options, of course. This is a way to use a free program called Autoruns. Autoruns allows you to manually remove infections. This does [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Autoruns is the program to analyze the Windows startup. It is the most complete offering a huge feature set (which can be at times intimidating). Today Autoruns for Windows 10 has been released to the public. The new version of the popular autostart manager is offered as a free download from Technet.

Categories: Software, Windows

Autoruns is probably the most popular and advanced Windows startup manager. It is a portable lightweight application that can be used to configure practically anything that deals with files that are loaded during the Windows system start. It goes beyond a simple application that lists programs in some of the possible locations that can contain [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Sometimes things go bad. You try to uninstall a software program that you do not longer need or recover a computer system after a hard drive crash only to find out that some traces of old programs are still in the system. One of these places is Services in the Windows operating system. What are [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

We all know about the autostart mechanism of the Windows operating system (and others) that will automatically start applications and processes that are listed in one of the many different autostart locations. Worse than that are the options to configure automatic software startups while the system is running. The Windows Scheduler is not really capable [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you ever wanted to download all the troubleshooting applications from sysinternals at once you can do so by downloading the Sysinternals suite right from Microsoft. The suite contains all troubleshooting applications that made sysinternal famous, 67 utilities in total which make it easy to troubleshoot Windows problems. This suite is not for you if you already have most of the utilities installed.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

Do I really need to to run this program at startup ? That´s a question I´am asking myself from time to time. I check on my autostart entries regulary and it happens that I find a program sitting there that I´am not sure about. I simply uncheck the item most of the time, but this is not the right way to do this. I present you a good way to check on your autostart entries, it´s fast, free and easy.

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

Programs can be loaded at startup of your windows machine, this is called autostart. There are unfortunately numerous places in windows that allow programs to be added to the autostart. The tool Autoruns 8.4 from sysinternals.com lists all known autostart places and programs that use this location to autostart.

Categories: Tools