yep thanks friend, that fixed it for me, in my situation it was McAfee..
What is the Program program showing up in Windows 8 Task Manager Startup tab?
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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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2018-01-25T19:53:45+00:00 Hey all, I signed up just to throw in my $.02
LOTS of replies, and I know some things worked for some, but not for others.
I had the same phantom "Program" issue caused by a botched uninstall of WinZip.
Enabling the Command Line in Task manager allowed me to find the name of the 3 .exe files that had floating registry remnants.
I then ran regedit.exe as Administrator. Starting with the first filename, I went to Edit > Find... then entered the name exactly as it appeared in Task Manager.
I found about 7 different locations with that name associated with it. They were all safe to delete because I wanted ALL files wiped from my system. After deleting each one, I went to Edit > Find Next until the registry could no longer find any results. Using Find... one of the locations was buried deep in a "Run" folder, although I do not recall the exact path; use the Find function and you will eventually kill them all.
Restart to double check- no mo phantom program in Start Up.
Hope this helps! Happy hunting!
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Anonymous
2018-01-18T15:55:36+00:00 i had the same thing on windows 10. I opened the "command lines" as per instructions and it worked great. thanks for the helpful tip
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Anonymous
2017-12-18T11:55:31+00:00 when i disabled the program from my stratup list, i got into a problem . Whenever i played a video on youtube the audio and video is not in sync and video also takes time to load and reload again and again this is not the problem only with youtube whenever i study from online coaching that video also got into the same problem, please help me to get rid of this
thanks
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Anonymous
2017-12-15T06:00:06+00:00 This solved my problem! Autoruns detected some missing registry files and I successfully removed them and now no more "Program".
Hey! Thanks for the response, but I did a Disk Clean Up and a reboot and when I went to check it, they were gone. Still have no idea what was up. Thanks again for trying!