Running the Startup Manager from Norton 360 I've found an application that always starts with the Windows operating system. I want to disable it but I can't find where it is configured. I have tried the startup folder, msconfig and autoruns.exe as well as services. I can't see it in any of them. I can certainly use some other non-Microsoft application to do the job. However I wonder if Windows provides such function.

Healee Whats the apps name or guid?MS-MVP 2010, 2011, 2012 Team ZigZag

Alas, I have found it in the running of autoruns.exe, as a standard user, not as an administrator The program is supposed to be a network accelerator for video streaming. I usually log on as a standard user. I run autoruns.exe as an administrator and I can't find it. However when I run autoruns.exe as a standard user I can see it but of course I can't disable the program as a standard user. When I use a third party program which I have to run as an administrator, they are all there though. I always think acting as an administrator the operation would be inclusive. So I check something as an administrator I suppose it would cover the whole computer and if I check something as a standard user it would cover only the scope the logged-on standard user is allowed. Am I right? The Microsoft programs seem to behave differently. I've just checked the Windows Task Manager, the process starts under my name which probably explains why it doesn't appear when autoruns.exe is run as an administrator. So it looks like I am wrong in that Microsoft programs when run as an administrator do not cover all other users'.

Hi, I hope you would get more sense from the article about Autoruns.exe file information: http://www.file.net/process/autoruns.exe.html Regards.Spencer TechNet Community Support

I thank you for your help. The article does not address the questions I raised in my previous post. In fact it creates more questions than I had. I don't follow why the location of the file autoruns.exe has any bearings of the security rating. So is it a matter of where I put the file?