[Update] Autoruns 8.52

[Goeroeboeroe]

Homepage/download: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

No changelog.

This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-
starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are
configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the
entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones
in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can
configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell
extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications,
auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the
MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

Peter

 

[hummingbird]

Homepage/download: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

No changelog.

This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-
starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are
configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the
entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones
in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can
configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell
extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications,
auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the
MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

Great program but I wonder why the v8.52 executable (autoruns.exe)
refuses to compress using UPX v2.01.

 

[Guy]

Great program but I wonder why the v8.52 executable (autoruns.exe)
refuses to compress using UPX v2.01.

UPX 2.00d says:
CantPackException: compressing certificate info is not supported

 

[hummingbird]

UPX 2.00d says:
CantPackException: compressing certificate info is not supported

Yikes! How did you get that message to appear?

I found the previous v8.51 compressed nicely.

 

[Guy]

Yikes! How did you get that message to appear?

I appears in the command window.

Here is output tee'd to a file using UPX 2.01w:

Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
Copyright (C) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006
UPX 2.01w Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser Jun 06th 2006

File size Ratio Format Name
-------------------- ------ ----------- -----------
upx: autoruns.exe: CantPackException: compressing certificate info is not supported

Packed 1 file: 0 ok, 1 error.

 

[Guy]

UPX 2.01w
CantPackException: compressing certificate info is not supported

Read BUGS:

Limitations and other things which are not (yet) supported:

win32/pe

 

[hummingbird]

Read BUGS:

Limitations and other things which are not (yet) supported:

win32/pe
--------
* writeable shared sections (`--force' *may* work)
* certificates in the image
* compressing files which contain a big BSS requires lots of memory
during compression

Sysinternals must have changed something in this latest version...
Thanks for the info.

 

[ClueLess]

Great program but I wonder why the v8.52 executable (autoruns.exe)
refuses to compress using UPX v2.01.

With practically huge disk sizes I am wondering why you need to
compress these files?

I had ASPack which I used to compress files when I had only a 4 gb
hard disk. I have never used that after I installed my first 40 gb
hard disk.

ClueLess

 

[hummingbird]

Read BUGS:

Limitations and other things which are not (yet) supported:

win32/pe
--------
* writeable shared sections (`--force' *may* work)
* certificates in the image
* compressing files which contain a big BSS requires lots of memory
during compression

Further explanation here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1510456&group_id=2331&atid=102331

 

[hummingbird]

With practically huge disk sizes I am wondering why you need to
compress these files?

IME no HDD is ever large enough eventually...

I've always compressed exe files going back to the days of DOS
to minimise HDD consumption.

In Windows XP, I tend to keep a lot of utils which (often) have very
limited use - only use once in a while. Whilst I'm happy to allocate
some small disk space to them, I would probably dump them if they
consumed lots of space.

We compress music files from .wav to .mp3 without question; doing
the same to .exe/.dll files is just an extension of that approach.

I had ASPack which I used to compress files when I had only a 4 gb
hard disk. I have never used that after I installed my first 40 gb
hard disk.

I currently have 2 x 200gb HDD and they're both ~65% full!
Compression saves me several gigabytes.