

If by red, you meant pink, those are generally unsigned. The yellow entries are generally “file not found”, yet there is still a startup entry somewhere on your PC for that.

Read the brief “Help” file in the menu first. Be careful if you proceed to disable (by un-checking) any items. This topic of how to interpret and use Autoruns is probably worthy of a thread of its own!īut just running it can provide plenty of info about your PC and the programs that load at start-up. What does it mean when an entry is yellow? Red? Some yellow entries say ‘file not found.’ And some are red Also did internet search, but found nothing conclusive. I checked on Bleeping computer startup DB, but didn’t find exact matches. I ran autoruns and see a lot of entries that are either yellow or red.
