Reviews of Autoruns

1. 
   dhry

   Reviewing 9.57 (Dec 3, 2009)

   I have used this program religiously to show me all my auto-starting programs (the Logon tab), and frankly pretty much nothing else. It always seemed to work great. However, maybe a week or two ago I noticed that my old Windows CE ActiveSync was autostarting but AutoRuns was not showing it in the startups at all - either disabled OR enabled. I was quite taken aback because it isn't actually a service - it SHOULD have been shown in the Logon tab! I finally ran MSCONFIG and went to the Startup tab in there. Sure as shinola, there was wcescomm.exe. AutoRuns apparently doesn't scan EVERYWHERE that could contribute an autostarting application - like it looks in HKLM but not HKCU or something? I cycled through all the users in the User menu option and I still didn't see it light up wcescomm.exe. In the end I ran Nirsoft's WhatInStartup (http://www.nirsoft.net/u...hat_run_in_startup.html) and it showed absolutely everything, including my Envy audio control panel and ActiveSync, both programs that I now remember I actually disabled from autorunning WITH AutoRuns! The other mildly annoying thing about AutoRuns is that you cannot tell it to start up on a particular tab, so I've always had to manually click on the Logon tab at startup. With WhatInStartup I don't need to do that anymore since it doesn't actually do anything else other than precisely what I want. I noticed that WhatInStartup at time of writing is not on FileForum so I just submitted it.
   
   I've always sworn by Sysinternals stuff, but this is the first instance that I'm a bit disillusioned by shaky functionality. (shrug) Four stars for being part of my toolkit for so long, regardless.
   
   Edit: Even now with v9.57, I noticed it isn't showing me an entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce but I can clearly see that entry in WhatInStartup. Fugedaboudit.
2. 
   Virtual_ManPL

   Reviewing 9.56 (Nov 11, 2009)

   they are probably speeding scanning, because previous versions was very slow... ;)
3. 
   CyberDoc999

   Reviewing 9.56 (Oct 15, 2009)

   Why all the updates all of the time.....
   I do not see any New features .......
4. 
   umi81

   Reviewing 9.55 (Oct 9, 2009)

   Works fine and no problems to report.
5. 
   Virtual_ManPL

   Reviewing 9.55 (Oct 9, 2009)

   @ DatabaseBen - you probably disable some system dll or service ;p
   and this program its not recommended for novice users... ;D

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