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Program in windows startup, what is that program?
- Thread starter wingman99
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I'm trying to read your mind to see the entry, but it isn't working right now. Must be because you are offline.
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Yes full scan and most resent updates.
Do you mean the registry?
One thing that is interesting, is that when I do a automatic search from the start task manger it searches for program program.
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Hover mouse over it, right click, select 'Properties'.
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I'm unable to look at properties in the start task manger it is not highlighted for "program".
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Click on "Program", and then right click on it and select 'Properties'. My guess is almost certainly malware of some kind, but you won't know unless you find the path and see where it resides. Unless it's a program that started up with Windows that got uninstalled incompletely, leaving that entry. You can try looking in the startup folder (open File Explorer and type "startup" in the search bar) to see if it's there, but the startup folder doesn't get used very often anymore anyway, from what I've seen, so you probably won't find anything worth noting there.
Without knowing where Windows is looking for it, you won't know what it is and how to fix it.
Without knowing where Windows is looking for it, you won't know what it is and how to fix it.
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I did right click on "Program" in task manger start up and the properties is not highlighted, so it wont do that function.
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That's suspicious.
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Please, elaborate. How is checking the path of a program suspicious?
Wingman, do you see anything odd in your AppData or Program Files?
Anything showing in Programs and Features?
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The name of the executable, if that's what I thought I saw...
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The computer I'm working on does not have any application installed with "Program" as the name.
The programs installed on this computer is hallmark card studio,adobe.
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