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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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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
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!
This solved my problem! Autoruns detected some missing registry files and I successfully removed them and now no more "Program".
Thanks for the information.
I don't know what it is, but I have it too and was concerned as well. So, I disabled it. Everything still works ok, no issues that I've noticed.
