Autorun Manager -- disable without deleting?

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Autorun Manager -- disable without deleting?

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I've been using Autoruns forever and one of its best features is the ability to disable an entry without deleting it entirely. Good for diagnostics. I'd like to use the built-in one more but it's lacking that key feature.

Any chance it could be worked in?
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Hi Xander. It's not lacking. It just works a bit different.

When you delete an entry, UVK makes a backup, which is exactly what Autoruns does.

If you want to restore it, just press Create / Restore, switch to the Restore previously deleted autorun entries tab, and restore the desired ones. You even have a Select All/None check box to help with the selection process.

The autoruns checkbox method can be better for disabling/enabling a few entries, but UVK's is better for big number of entries, as you can hold Ctrl or Shift down to select several items.
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It's just that the current method isn't a disable/re-enable, it's a delete/restore which is counter-intuitive when one has used the other autorun managers out there (with both Autoruns and MSconfig supporting disabling).

Normally, I'd be running UVK and a couple of other scanners to clear out the major junk before manually looking at the autostarts so mass-deletion is a lower priority. By the time I use it, I'm either looking for the option to mass-disable (a la MSconfig) or to manually delete a leftover or two.
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None of them support disabling. When you uncheck the box, they make a backup copy and then delete the original entry, which is exactly what UVK does.
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Post by Charger440 »

Fred,

I think he is wanting you to add check boxes and keep track in the main window of everything that was in there. I actually like the way you do it and I have never gone to the restore section. My view on that is, once I uncheck/delete a startup option your out of here, gone, see you, don't let the door hit you on the way out. I would be perfectly happy if nothing was in the autorun but that is not feasible, especially when you have an antivirus installed.

You could do check marks but I like way it is now so when I get done, it's nice and clean and if a really want to add something back I can go restore which is highly unlikely as I hate autoruns with a passion.
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I like that Autoruns leaves the entry visible but have become used to UVK the way it works. I wouldn't mind check boxes and leaving the entry visible though.
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