What is the Program program showing up in Windows 8 Task Manager Startup tab?

Anonymous
2013-01-08T19:16:06+00:00

I just purchased a new HP desktop.  Windows 8 is installed.  I've had it for about three weeks.  I haven't installed much so far...printer drivers, Acrobat Reader, Google Chrome, VLC Media Player, Open Office, and Quicken 2012 are all I can think of.

About two weeks ago I noticed that in the Startup tab of Task Manager there is an application listed named "Program."  The publisher column is blank.  The Status column shows "Enabled."  The Startup impact column shows "Not measured."  When I right click on the listing I have the options to "Disable" and "Search online"; the "Properties" and "Open file location" options are grayed out.  So, I disabled the "Program" program.  Since then I've not noticed any lack of functionality, but Norton Internet Security did crash once; otherwise I seem to have a stable system and everything seems to work.

Still, I want to know what this "Program" program is.  I've searched my system to the best of my ability using all utilities that came installed.  I've also searched the Registry using regedit; nothing.  Finally, today, I downloaded Sysinternals' (a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation) Autoruns.  Nothing again.

I'd appreciate any help to track this down.  What is it?  And, if I don't need it how can I get rid of it?  Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-01-09T10:55:36+00:00

    when ever you uninstall a program you also should delete it from the Registry too. to this you go to the window on the task bar next to the windows or Microsoft icon located in the lower left and type regedit.exe then press enter...this will take you to the registry, on the left side you will see several items listed there. left click on the down arrows look for the folder that says "software" then look for the program you uninstalled and delete it. go through the entire starting with the second one down and go to the software folder. you should see the program in two or three of the selections all but the first one and the last one. you will have delete it from each software folder. delete the program in each of them then restart your computer...after this you will not find any sign of the program on your system.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-04T02:11:26+00:00

    I'm sorry Tom, I must have made a mistake when asking for an answer to my question.

    I have an error popup when I am using MS Outlook, p33 in the server box.  ATT says it is an MS error, but can't find any solutions.  Do you or anyone else know what I can do to fix it? 

    Thank you

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-03T17:32:45+00:00

    it seems to be a sub registry associated with lava soft software.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-11-25T21:17:55+00:00

    What is IDT ?

    A brand of audio cards like for example Realtek?

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-11-25T06:27:52+00:00

    I had this problem, turned out to be idt audio driver, I had uninstalled, and was not an issue

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