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autostart

autostart verb: to start automatically.

Verb

autostart (third-person singular simple present autostarts, present participle autostarting, simple past and past participle autostarted)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To start automatically.

Noun

autostart (countable and uncountable, plural autostarts)

  1. (An instance of) automatic starting.
    • When you utilize this option, the autostart and autostop options are added to the virtual machine's vmx file. You can also take this a step further and define the startup and shutdown order of the virtual machines […]2011, Rogier Dittner, David Rule, The Best Damn Server Virtualization Book Period, page 807
  2. A program or application set to start automatically.
    • Vundo installs two autostarts—one a WinLogon Notify and the other a BHO—that reference the same randomly named infective DLL file.2006, Dave Kleiman, editor, Winternals Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide, →ISBN, page 104
    • EnCase 6 has a new folder “Main” and is utilized as an autostart. Inside the Main folder is the Tool Menu Plugin script that loads on startup […]2008, Steve Bunting, EnCE: The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 510

autostart meaning in Tamil

autostart in Tamil

தன் தொடக்கி

Forms of autostart

Verb
third-person singular presentautostarts
present participleautostarting
past participleautostarted
pastautostarted
Noun
pluralautostarts

Origin of autostart

From auto- + start.

Questions about autostart

What does autostart mean?
Autostart means to start automatically.
What is autostart in Tamil?
Autostart in Tamil is தன் தொடக்கி. See Autostart meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is autostart?
Autostart can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of autostart?
The past tense of autostart is autostarted.

Words near autostart in the dictionary

  1. autostage
  2. autostages
  3. autostainer
  4. autostainers
  5. autostaining
  6. autostart
  7. autostarted
  8. autostarting
  9. autostarts
  10. autosteer
  11. autosteered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autostart (page history and authors); autostart (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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