Autoruns, Process Explorer, Process Monitor are utilities of Windows Sysinternals Suite. These tools’ UI has been outdated, but they’re very helpful to PC users. For instance, Autoruns lets you handle startup processes running on your computer. The utility has received a much better look, including a dark theme with the Autoruns v14.0.
Autoruns is a go-to tool for many to manage startup processes despite the same feature provided by CCleaner, Task Manager, and System Configuration (MSConfig) utility.
The tool exposes software that starts up Automatically on Windows. Autoruns shows the following information in its User interface
- Software applicaitons
- Explorer shell extensions
- Auto-start services
- startup applications
- drivers
- Internet Explorer add-ons (Internet Explorer was dead now)
- Services and much more
Autoruns features:
- With VirusTotal Integration, you can look up selected entries for malware check and see results in VirusTotal Column.
- Autoruns comes with the option to “Analyze offline system”.
- It hides empty locations and Windows entries by default.
- With plenty of tabs may get confusing to start, but the “Everything” tab helps in that regard.
- These days, Malicious software finds ways to hide, Autoruns tool uncovers undetected malware if they run as Scheduled Tasks and Drivers by displaying them in respective Tabs.
- The developer offers command-line verison “Autorunsc” with the tool.
Autoruns v14
What’s new:
- Finally, Autoruns User interface has got a redesign.
- In addition to the default theme, it offers Dark.
Autoruns v14 with the default theme - Click on Options > Theme> Select Dark
- Autoruns seem to support Windows 11 design with rounded corners. It is bliss to eyes with dark theme enabled.
Give running the latest version of Autoruns a try and lets us know what you think about its new UI in the comments below.
You can download Autoruns, including other tools from Sysinternals here.
Which tool do you use to manage Windows Startup entries?
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