Autoruns

Copyright © 1996-2015 Mark Russinovich

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This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and what extension load into various Windows processes, including Explorer and Internet Explorer. It reports the image timestamp of executables, the last-modified timestamp of other file types, and the last-modified timestamp of the autostart locations. A "Hide Signed Microsoft Entries" option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system.

Autoruns works on Windows XP and higher, including 64-bit Windows.

Note: before you send e-mail reporting what you believe to be an auto-start location that's overlooked by Autoruns, please make sure that Autoruns doesn't cover it and verify that the location actually works.