The options then differ depending on what type of media Windows has detected. Usually when you plug in your USB flash drive or device, you’ll get the Autoplay window asking what would you like to do next. USB drives when they are inserted haven’t really had the autorun.inf file fully processed since early versions of Windows XP, and instead the USB autorun launching is either included in the Autoplay function or ignored altogether as happens in Vista and 7. You can still get your Windows DVD or game CD to launch automatically or via double clicking on the drive icon. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc.The Autorun functionality has been reduced in more recent versions of Windows for security purposes and in Windows 7 the autorun.inf file is almost completely ignored for all media except CD’s and DVD’s. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.Īutoruns' Hide Signed Microsoft Entries option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system and it has support for looking at the auto-starting images configured for other accounts configured on a system. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor (A starting list of auto-run locations was obtained from David Solomon's 'Windows Internals' seminar), shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them.

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