First off, thanks Grinler for the great tut on how to use Autoruns to optimize computers.

I managed to get everything to work and was about to uncheck userinit.exe when Autoruns gave me a popup box saying that unchecking userinit.exe will prevent me from logging on. Is this just the trojan or is the userinit actually legit? In the database it says that userinit.exe is malware, so I'm at a crossroads.

Thanks for reading!

Userinit.exe is legitimate. When using the database you must check to make sure the paths in the database that are flagged as malware are the same as in autoruns.

For example, if it says in the database that C:\Windows\userinit.exe is malware and autoruns shows your userinit.exe in C:\Windows\System32, then they are different files.