AutoRuns Changelog

What's new in AutoRuns 14.11

Feb 6, 2024
  • This update to Autoruns fixes a bug parsing parameters in startup folder items

New in AutoRuns 14.10 (Jun 27, 2023)

  • This update to Autoruns, a utility for monitoring startup items, fixes a bug with detecting non-shortcut files in startup folders, fixes a bug with handling non-UNC, non-absolute paths, and improves theming support.

New in AutoRuns 14.09 (Feb 17, 2022)

  • This Autoruns update fixes a bug preventing the enabling/disabling of startup folder items.

New in AutoRuns 14.08 (Jan 28, 2022)

  • What's New:
  • ZoomIt v5.0:
  • ZoomIt, a screen zoom and annotation tool, now supports Windows 11 and antialiased line drawing. Note that under Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 some UI elements might not react to mouse clicks when zoomed. The temporary workaround until a future Windows update is to store the ZoomIt executable under the Windows or the Program Files directories.
  • RDCMan v2.90:
  • RDCMan, a tool for managing and connecting to Remote Desktop sessions, receives support for Restricted Admin (/restrictedAdmin from mstsc) and Remote Credential Guard (/remoteGuard from mstsc) and bug fixes.

New in AutoRuns 14.07 (Dec 16, 2021)

  • This Autoruns update can open .arn files from the command line, fixes RunDll32 parameter handling in some cases, supports toggling Active Setup entries, fixes a crash when no ProcExp can be found in the path and improves 32/64 bit redirection.

New in AutoRuns 14.06 (Oct 27, 2021)

  • This Autoruns release fixes a crash happening for scheduled tasks containing spaces.

New in AutoRuns 14.05 (Oct 14, 2021)

  • This update for Autoruns addresses a bug preventing opening and comparing .arn files.

New in AutoRuns 14.04 (Oct 13, 2021)

  • This update for Autoruns adds a series of display/theme fixes, restores autorunsc, fixes a regression for rundll32 entries, limits per-user scans to the user locations, fixes Microsoft entry hiding and adds a high DPI application icon.

New in AutoRuns 14.03 (Sep 30, 2021)

  • This update for Autoruns restores entries previously shown in v13.100, improves Wow64 redirection handling and entry name resolution.

New in AutoRuns 14.02 (Sep 30, 2021)

  • Receives a series of UI improvements related to the dark theme and general Windows 10 tweaks, VirusTotal and signed files regressions fixes.

New in AutoRuns 14.01 (Sep 1, 2021)

  • This update for Autoruns fixes a regression with VirusTotal submissions introduced in v14.0.

New in AutoRuns 14.0 (Aug 19, 2021)

  • Autoruns, a utility for monitoring startup items, is the latest Sysinternals tool to receive a UI overhaul including a dark theme.

New in AutoRuns 13.100 (Apr 23, 2021)

  • This update to Autoruns fixes a crash reported in v13.99.

New in AutoRuns 13.96 (Jun 29, 2019)

  • SHA1 deprecation

New in AutoRuns 13.95 (Jun 12, 2019)

  • This Autoruns update adds support for redirected user Shell folders.

New in AutoRuns 13.90 (Jul 6, 2018)

  • Autoruns now includes Runonce*Depend entries, adds GPO logon and logoff locations, and fixes a bug in WMI path parsing.

New in AutoRuns 13.82 (Jul 6, 2018)

  • This Autoruns release shows Onenote addins and fixes several bugs.

New in AutoRuns 13.80 (Sep 13, 2017)

  • This release of Autoruns, a utility for viewing and managing autostart execution points (ASEPs), adds additional autostart entry points, has asynchronous file saving, fixes a bug parsing 32-bit paths on 64-bit Windows, shows the display name for drivers and services, and fixes a bug in offline Virus Total scanning.

New in AutoRuns 13.71 (May 16, 2017)

  • This update to Autoruns, a comprehensive autostart execution point manager, adds Microsoft HTML Application Host (mshta.exe) as hosting image so it displays the hosted image details, and now doesn’t apply filters to hosting images.

New in AutoRuns 13.51 (Jan 5, 2016)

  • This release of Autoruns, a comprehensive autostart entry manager, fixes a WMI command-line parsing bug, emits a UNICODE BOM in the file generated when saving results to a text file, and adds back the ability to selectively verify the signing status of individual entries.

New in AutoRuns 13.5 (Oct 27, 2015)

  • This update to Autoruns, the most comprehensive autostart viewer and manager available for Windows, now shows 32-bit Office addins and font drivers, and enables resubmission of known images to Virus Total for a new scan.

New in AutoRuns 13.4 (May 27, 2015)

  • Autoruns, the most comprehensive utility available for showing what executables, DLLs, and drivers are configured to automatically start and load, now reports Office addins, adds several additional autostart locations, and no longer hides hosting executables like cmd.exe, powershell.exe and others when Windows and Microsoft filters are in effect.

New in AutoRuns 13.3 (Apr 21, 2015)

  • Adds reporting of GP extension DLLs and now shows the target of hosting processes like cmd.exe and rundll32.exe.

New in AutoRuns 13.2 (Mar 11, 2015)

  • In addition to bug fixes to CSV and XML output, Autorunsc introduces import-hash reporting, and Autoruns now excludes command-line and other host processes from the Microsoft and Windows filters.

New in AutoRuns 13.0 (Jan 30, 2015)

  • This major update to Autoruns, an autostart execution point (ASEP) manager, now has integration with Virustotal.com to show the status of entries with respect to scans by over four dozen antimalware engines. It also includes a revamped scanning architecture that supports dynamic filters, including a free-form text filter, a greatly improved compare feature that highlights not just new items but deleted ones as well, and file saving and loading that preserves all the information of a scan.

New in AutoRuns 12.03 (Sep 12, 2014)

  • This update to Autoruns adds the registered HTML file extension, fixes a bug that could cause disabling of specific entry types to fail with a “path not found” error, and addresses another that could prevent the Jump-to-image function from opening the selected image on 64-bit Windows.

New in AutoRuns 12.02 (Aug 20, 2014)

  • This fixes a bug that could cause Autoruns to crash on startup, updates the image path parsing for Installed Components to remove false positive file-not-found entries, and correctly reports image entry timestamps in local time instead of UTC.

New in AutoRuns 12.01 (Aug 9, 2014)

  • This update to Autoruns, a utility that comes in Windows application and command-line forms, has numerous bug fixes, adds a profile attribute/column to CSV and XML output, and interprets the CodeBase value for COM object registrations.

New in AutoRuns 12.0 (May 14, 2014)

  • This release of Autoruns, a Windows application and command-line utility for viewing autostart entries, now reports the presence of batch file and executable image entries in the WMI database, a vector used by some types of malware.

New in AutoRuns 11.70 (Aug 2, 2013)

  • This release of Autoruns adds a new option to have it show only per-user locations, something that is useful when analyzing the autostarts of different accounts than the one that Autoruns is running under.

New in AutoRuns 11.62 (Jul 2, 2013)

  • This release fixes a bug in version 11.61’s jump-to-image functionality.

New in AutoRuns 11.61 (Jun 21, 2013)

  • Autoruns is a utility for managing autostarting applications, DLLs and services. This update adds more autostart locations, fixes a bug that could cause a crash when Autorunsc is directed to calculate file hashes, and fixes a bug in Autoruns’ jump-to-image functionality on 64-bit Windows.

New in AutoRuns 11.6 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • This update fixes some minor bugs and adds Authenticode SHA1 and SHA256 hash reporting to Autorunsc output.

New in AutoRuns 11.5 (Mar 28, 2013)

  • This update to Autoruns, a utility for managing autostarting applications and components, now reports the image timestamp of executables and the last-modified timestamp of other file types and autostart locations to help with forensic analysis. The jump-to-entry feature is also improved to navigate directly to files rather than their parent directory.

New in AutoRuns 11.42 (Feb 1, 2013)

  • This release fixes a bug in the parsing of network file paths introduced in v11.41.

New in AutoRuns 11.4 (Jan 12, 2013)

  • Autoruns v11.4 adds additional startup locations
  • fixes several bugs related to image path parsing
  • adds better support for browsing folders on WinPE
  • fixes a Wow64 redirection bug

New in AutoRuns 11.34 (Sep 12, 2012)

  • This release of Autoruns fixes a bug that caused it to not show some Internet Explorer extensions.

New in AutoRuns 11.32 (Jun 29, 2012)

  • This update fixes a bug that prevented Autoruns from correctly elevating when the Run as Administrator option is selected.

New in AutoRuns 11.31 (May 24, 2012)

  • This fixes a bug that caused Autoruns to not automatically refresh when relaunched from the “Run as Administrator” menu option.

New in AutoRuns 11.3 (May 15, 2012)

  • This update to Autoruns adds several new autostart locations, sets a file association for its log file extension, reports the target of Rundll32 and other host executables, and fixes several bugs.

New in AutoRuns 11.21 (Jan 13, 2012)

  • This update to Autoruns fixes a number of minor bugs, including one that could result in a crash when certain scheduled tasks are configured.

New in AutoRuns 11.2 (Dec 6, 2011)

  • This update fixes a bug in the jump-to-folder function when executed on disabled items and correctly locates print monitor DLLs when they are stored in print monitor-specific system director

New in AutoRuns 11.1 (Nov 11, 2011)

  • This update to Autoruns adds several new autostart locations, reports the active filter in the status bar, and highlights unsigned images and those with no company name or description to make them easy to spot.

New in AutoRuns 11.0 (Sep 21, 2011)

  • This update to Autoruns, a GUI and command-line tool that lists executables configured to run when you boot, logon or run common applications, adds a “jump to folder” command and several additional autostart locations. The command-line version, Autorunsc, adds a new switch to show file hashes and an option to display the autostart entries for all user accounts registered on a system.

New in AutoRuns 10.06 (Nov 30, 2010)

  • This release fixes a bug that could affect delete and disable operations on entries stored as multisz registry values.

New in AutoRuns 10.05 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • This Autoruns update adds ActiveSync autostart locations, fixes a bug in that prevented offline scanning from working in some cases, and fixes a formatting bug in the scheduled tasks display.

New in AutoRuns 10.04 (Oct 7, 2010)

  • This fixes a toolbar drawing bug that shows on Windows XP.

New in AutoRuns 10.03 (Sep 30, 2010)

  • This update adds a number of additional shell extension locations and reports Safe Mode’s alternateshell value.

New in AutoRuns 10.02 (Jul 23, 2010)

  • This update fixes a bug in Autorunsc that had default to filtering out signed Windows components.

New in AutoRuns 10.01 (Jun 15, 2010)

  • This fixes a bug in the Registry jump-to function for HKCU registry paths.

New in AutoRuns 10.0 (Jun 9, 2010)

  • This major update to Autoruns introduces the ability to scan offline Windows installations, adds .exe and .cmd extension handlers, defaults to hiding Windows entries to reduce noise in the common use case, and includes bug fixes.

New in AutoRuns 9.55 (Oct 2, 2009)

  • A bug that prevented some 64-bit entries from being disabled is addressed in this update.

New in AutoRuns 9.54 (Sep 18, 2009)

  • This update includes several bug fixes, the introduction of additional 32-bit autostart locations for 64-bit Windows, some user interface improvements, and brings back compatibility with .ARN files created by older versions.

New in AutoRuns 9.52 (Jul 24, 2009)

  • Autoruns v9.52 fixes some minor bugs including one where Ctrl+C didn’t copy the entire entry to the clipboard.

New in AutoRuns 9.51 (Jul 2, 2009)

  • This fixes a bug with the Run As Administrator functionality on 64-bit Windows 7, a copy-to-clipboard bug where part of a line’s content was truncated, and is updated to show Windows 7 Sidebar Gadget configuration.

New in AutoRuns 9.5 (May 8, 2009)

  • This update to Autoruns, a powerful autostart manager, adds display of audio and video codecs, which are gaining popularity as an extension mechanism used by malware gains automatic execution.

New in AutoRuns 9.41 (Apr 7, 2009)

  • This release fixes a bug with the hide-Microsoft images options when the signature verification option is enabled.

New in AutoRuns 9.40 (Mar 30, 2009)

  • This Autoruns update shows manual start Windows services, fixes a bug that affected the display of autostart locations that could include multiple startup registrations, and fixes a bug in the Jump To functionality on 64-bit Windows.

New in AutoRuns 9.39 (Feb 6, 2009)

  • Autoruns update fixes a couple of minor bugs and adds a new Windows 7 location.

New in AutoRuns 9.38 (Jan 12, 2009)

  • This fixes a bug that prevented v9.37 from viewing the system account's profile on 32-bit Windows.

New in AutoRuns 9.37 (Dec 20, 2008)

  • This update adds support for viewing the Local System account's profile and adds a new option, Hide Microsoft and Windows Entries

New in AutoRuns 9.36 (Dec 11, 2008)

  • Autoruns changes the Hide Microsoft Entries to only hide Windows entries, fixes a bug in the Find behavior, allows enabling and disabling entries using the space bar, and fixes a number of minor bugs.