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Old July 3rd 19, 11:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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On Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at 11:24:41 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:
On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 10:24:13 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:
On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 9:32:03 PM UTC-7, Robert in CA wrote:
On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 8:31:44 PM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote:

https://i.postimg.cc/mZn31CWy/extraction.gif

I am somewhat lost. When I right click on autoruns.exe I
don't get the same screen as you do. That's why this is
hard to follow. I right clicked on the start button and
selected open Windows Explorer but it doesn't look anything
like your example. What am I doing wrong?

Robert
Open File Explorer and your downloads folder.

First, is there already a folder named "Autoruns" ?

Look in the Type column and verify a folder is the Type of the item.

You can open that folder, and double-click the "autoruns.exe"
to run the program.

Filename Type
-------- ----

autoruns Folder

*******

If there isn't a folder, now look to see if any file
item is autoruns.ZIP or similar.

Maybe the ZIP hasn't been unpacked to the folder yet.

Use one of the easy methods, to extract the entire folder.

Filename Type
-------- ----

autoruns.zip ZIP file ---+ (Unpack to make folder)
|
autoruns Folder ---+

Once the folder has been created, you can double-click
the autoruns.exe and run the program.

Paul

There's (4) exe applications, which one?
I then tried to search for Autoruns.exe
and it found a zip file. So how should I
proceed? I'm still not finding a way of
extracting the file but didn't you say before
that it's already been extracted by the
because it was asking to add to the archive
There's only two possible extractions via 7Zip
One of which I showed you and lead nowhere.

I can try the other and see if its different.

Robert
I tried it again using the lower extract here
option:

http://i67.tinypic.com/fxdti0.jpg Already in the folder, an "autoruns.exe" is available!

http://i68.tinypic.com/14wx0dj.jpg (Preparing to extract a ZIP... somewhere)

http://i68.tinypic.com/34i3jvn.jpg (Checking the properties of autoruns.zip)

http://i64.tinypic.com/2ngsdo3.jpg (Checking the properties of autoruns.zip)

http://i66.tinypic.com/2m3hg2d.jpg Trying to unzip autoruns.EXE, naughty!

http://i64.tinypic.com/23tpeyw.jpg Extracted .text segment from EXE file, trying to save....

http://i65.tinypic.com/6pq3k6.jpg Trying to unzip autoruns64.EXE, naughty!
Dumpster fire!
http://i64.tinypic.com/ngygyp.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/34ipwsg.jpg

http://i67.tinypic.com/2nbdf00.jpg THis one would probably have worked, for extraction.

Your first picture, you had the materials in hand!

Your first picture looks like "autoruns.exe" was
already extracted and sitting there in the folder.

All you needed to do is double-click the "Autoruns.exe"
in the first picture.

You should seriously consider going to
Control Panels : Programs and Features
and removing 7ZIP. I can see this is causing
no end of misery.

All that you really need, is one procedure for "Extracting"
a ZIP to a folder, when you do a download. And File Explorer
is plenty for the job.

The poster "Char" doesn't like the 7ZIP integration
into the desktop, but it doesn't bother me. I'm beginning
to see Char's point, that maybe it's too complicated to
keep track of.

Microsoft shouldn't have put its "virtual folder" feature
into Explorer. Web sites could have used SFX versions of
ZIP files, which would end in EXE and would unpack
when you double clicked them. This "extraction" nonsense
if for the birds, that's for sure...

Paul


I removed 7Zip, right clicking looks different
afterwards. Agreed about zipping procedures.

I tried to extract it; I showed the example you
suggested after the one I tried to compare them
and the last picture is after the extraction.

I don't see any difference? I restarted the computer
to see if the pop-up was still there and it was. Did
I do it wrong? It didn't look exactly like the one you
suggested but Autoruns was checked in yours so I
thought it was OK to try.

http://i63.tinypic.com/2nv769j.jpg Use "Extract All"

http://i65.tinypic.com/2dgn5th.jpg Good value by auto-suggestion in File Explorer

http://i67.tinypic.com/2nbdf00.jpg Uh, we switched to 7ZIP???

http://i63.tinypic.com/awsxus.jpg Seems like a happy ending.
Now, to double click "autoruns.exe"

Robert


The Extraction was the easy part.

Now, we get to run the actual "autoruns.exe" program.

Your result by doing that, was supposed to look like this.

In this example, I'm showing where the USB3MON is for my
Renesas brand USB3. Yours will be Intel flavored, so the
line will be *similar* but not exactly the same as mine.

https://i.postimg.cc/RZzyhsft/autoruns.gif

By unticking the box for the "USB3MON" flavor, the tray
notification should stop running.

Paul


I showed you the one I chose and then
the example you said you said would likely
work so you could compare them and then ran
it with the results at the end.

Do I just right click Autoscans.exe and run
as Administrator?

http://i63.tinypic.com/w1w7yt.jpg

Robert
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