Autoruns Portable Changelog

What's new in Autoruns Portable 14.11

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

New in Autoruns Portable 14.10 (Jun 29, 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 Portable 14.09 (Feb 17, 2022)

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

New in Autoruns Portable 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 Portable 14.07 (Dec 17, 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 Portable 14.06 (Oct 27, 2021)

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

New in Autoruns Portable 14.03 (Oct 4, 2021)

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

New in Autoruns Portable 14.02 (Oct 4, 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 Portable 14.01 (Sep 2, 2021)

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

New in Autoruns Portable 14.00 (Aug 21, 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 Portable 13.100 (Apr 25, 2021)

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

New in Autoruns Portable 13.95 (Jul 1, 2019)

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

New in Autoruns Portable 13.90 (Jul 11, 2018)

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

New in Autoruns Portable 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 Portable 13.71 (May 18, 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 Portable 13.51 (Jan 6, 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 13.3 (Apr 22, 2015)

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

New in Autoruns Portable 13.2 (Mar 18, 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 Portable 13.0 (Jan 31, 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 Portable 12.03 (Sep 15, 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 Portable 12.02 (Aug 21, 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 Portable 12.01 (Aug 14, 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 11.62 (Jul 3, 2013)

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

New in Autoruns Portable 11.61 (Jun 22, 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 Portable 11.6 (Jun 22, 2013)

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

New in Autoruns Portable 11.5 (Mar 29, 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 Portable 11.42 (Feb 1, 2013)

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

New in Autoruns Portable 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 Portable 11.34 (Nov 29, 2012)

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