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The thread discusses difficulties in removing or disabling items under the Logon tab in Autoruns.exe, with the original poster facing "Access is denied" errors despite running the program as an administrator. The second and third posts suggest ensuring Autoruns is run with administrator privileges, but the original poster clarifies that even attempting to run files as administrator did not resolve the issue. A response indicates that certain system items may be restricted from modification, leading to the conclusion that some entries are protected and cannot be changed by the user. Overall, the conversation highlights limitations in modifying system-level autorun entries due to permission restrictions.
The thread discusses difficulties in removing or disabling items under the Logon tab in Autoruns.exe, with the original poster facing "Access is denied" errors despite running the program as an administrator. The second and third posts suggest ensuring Autoruns is run with administrator privileges, but the original poster clarifies that even attempting to run files as administrator did not resolve the issue. A response indicates that certain system items may be restricted from modification, leading to the conclusion that some entries are protected and cannot be changed by the user. Overall, the conversation highlights limitations in modifying system-level autorun entries due to permission restrictions.
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If there is no "Run As Administrator" then that means autoruns is already running as administrator. That would tell me what ever your trying to change isn't meant to be changed. In other words the item probably is limited to access by the system account.