If you are unsure at some point, contact your IT expert or ask us on Facebook.įrom the above link, download the ZIP archive, extract it and run Autorun.exe. WARNING: Before doing anything, make sure you know what you're doing. This suite of applications was developed by Microsoft's employee Mark Russinovich and is available at: We’ll be using a tool called Autoruns from the Microsoft Sysinternals suite.

To optimize boot time we need to remove the unnecessary applications.

One of the reasons for bad startup performance are the applications that are launched during boot up. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc.It’s not uncommon that with time Windows may take way too much time to start up.

Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.Īutoruns' 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. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor (A starting list of auto-run locations was obtained from David Solomon's 'Windows Internals' seminar), shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them.

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