I often recommend using Windows's MSCONFIG utility to disable all the startup items on a slow computer. Doing helps performance, and you can re-enable the ones you really want to start up ...

The Task Manager utility doesn't always provide the information you need to decide whether your system's auto-start apps really need to load each time your PC boots. No such worries with Autoruns.

Key feature upgrades: Autoruns now supports Windows packaged apps, ProcDump gains process tree dumping, and ZoomIt adds webcam overlay and clip appending. Broader Linux support: Sysinternals tools now ...

My first posting on the topic of Autorun/Autoplay, Test your defenses against malicious USB flash drives, described three ways that bad guys trick people into running malicious software that resides ...

Autoruns 9 reveals every single program and process that launches automatically on your computer. It's especially useful for detecting malware, since almost every malicious program needs some way to ...