Is your Windows being dragged by un-necessary startup apps eating up resources? Are you compromising your privacy by not knowing what spywares are tracking your actions on the web? Need an effective tool for tracking those DLLs, services and applications that automatically load at system startup?
Here's the tool:
Sysinternals’ Autoruns, a free troubleshooting application being provided now by Microsoft!
This tool offers an easy to use yet powerful GUI that tracks spywares, processes... moreover the DLLs, services, applications and other critical stuff that load behind the scene on Windows systems.
With this tool, keeping a check on your startup apps, removing unwanted dll-loads/services/free-wares/ trial-expired s/w or adding service entries is a lawn-walk. It offers check-boxes to enable/disable each and everything, with a description of the Publisher of that s/w, service, dll and the location of the binary/library being tracked.
Some evaluated Pros & Cons from Techrepublic:
+ve
* price (it’s free!)
* Simple installation
* Administration is easy, thanks to a straightforward GUI
* Thorough tracking of installed and active processes
Less than helpful in scenarios like:
* Some malware applications may not register within active processes, rendering Autoruns less than helpful when combating particularly problematic infections
* Deleting processes won’t remove all remnants of many unwanted programs from the hard disk
* Removing infections that infest multiple user accounts may need to be removed as many times as there are user accounts
A gr8 tool?
With this gr8 tool for tracking down things running on your machine behind your back...being offered free by MS... It becomes a good one in the list of have's for a sys-admin or a helpdesk engineer (also for a normal Windows freak).
With a thorough coverage and dependable performance, this free utility is the right tool for almost any malware troubleshooting routine (also could be used to easily tweak system performance)
Download and assess yourself: http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Autoruns.zip
Usage. Point of views?
5 comments:
if you are comfortable with Registry then look out for these keys.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
Leaving that check your windows menu start up that too contains the programs to be run at start up.
Never mess with your registry unless you know what you are doing.
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