Have you noticed that Windows take too long to start? Thanks to Autoruns you can set up and customize your Windows startup by disabling unnecessary processes and applications that ran at startup. What are you waiting for? Now It´s time to speed up Windows startup.

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When logging in into Windows a myriad of applications and processes are loaded, some of them on the desktop and some others in the background, consuming unnecessary system resources. Of course, many programs, processes and needed for our system to start properly since many processes are bound to drivers and software we usually use.

Autoruns will enable us to monitor and manage all the processes and applications providing a detailed list of those processes set to run at Windows startup. In this way, we can know which processes and application run at startup and remove then if they´re unnecessary. Even when Windows includes it own tool which can be accessed by typing msconfig in the “Run…” box, it does not feature as many options as Autoruns.

Even when Autoruns wasn´t made for novice Windows users, msconfig is not wasn´t either, and all its additional options makes it an excellent choice to view and manage all your processes in a more organized way. Simply run Autoruns and it shows you the currently configured auto-start applications as well as the full list of Registry and file system locations available for auto-start configuration. Autostart locations displayed by Autoruns include logon entries, Explorer add-ons, Internet Explorer add-ons including Browser Helper Objects (BHOs), Appinit DLL, image hijacks, boot execute images, Winlogon notification DLLs, Windows Services and Winsock Layered Service Providers. You can switch tabs to view autostarts from different categories.

Autoruns‘ Hide Signed Microsoft Entries option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system and it has support for looking at the auto-starting images configured for other accounts configured on a system. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc.

In short, Autoruns is a great tool for managing your self-running processes, thus enabling users to have a more thorough control regarding the application and processes activity in our system.

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