Overall, files are checked through 57 antivirus databases. To check if a program is a malware, Autoruns enables you to check it against VirusTotal databases. You can check for updates manually from inside Skype. Some of the non-Windows services could be disabled without any problems, for example, Skype update. We do not recommend disabling any of Windows services without knowing their functions.
By default, all Windows services are hidden (see the Hidden option above). Services is another tab with applications. We suggest leaving such options intact as shown on the screenshot above. Those are the Windows system entries, the applications that are critical for the system to properly function.
Red means that the item’s in the registry, the file is in place, but the Publisher string is empty.īy default, some elements are not displayed on the list. Yellow means that the item is exist in registry, but the file is not found. Some elements in Autoruns are highlighted with red or yellow: Then it will open regedit.exe with the respective registry branch: 
To look at the origin of the item, right-click it and select Jump to Entry. Just Google the description of each respective app to decide whether to keep it.Īll entries in the list are retrieved from the Windows registry.
pretty much any app on the list is a candidate. After disabling them, every update will have to be done manually update downloaders for such apps as Java, Adobe Reader, etc. In many cases you may want to even remove such crapware from the system programs that take much time to start (such as Office suite or music players). The obvious question is what apps to disable? Some ideas: We recommend to always disable app launch because you’ll be able to revert the changes if something goes wrong. remove the entry from Windows registry: press Ctrl+D or click Delete on the right-click menu. disable the app startup by unchecking the checkbox (recommended). At this step there are two possible actions available: Here you can find all applications that can be disabled. The main window has tab-based interface, so we need to switch to the Logon tab containing the list of all applications launched on system startup. Another useful files in the archive are the Help file and the console version of the app. 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. It’s not uncommon that with time Windows may take way too much time to start up.
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