Startup programs

[Flawizz]

hello, my apologies if this is in the wrong place, but i dont know where else to put it

i have a weird program in my task managers startup list, when i rightclick it, 'file location' is greyed out, someone help please: (

[imbrock]

Thats not a good sign.

Full virus scan time?

See if it has an option to do a boot time scan, they catch even things that are deeply infected in there.

[Flawizz]

5 minutes ago, imbrock said:

Thats not a good sign.

Full virus scan time?

See if it has an option to do a boot time scan, they catch even things that are deeply infected in there.

no, nothings detecting a threat, but i just read on other places, that it could be a deleted file, and it makes sense tbh, but anyone know how i can just delete it from the list?

[MrPoopyButtHole]

5 minutes ago, Flawizz said:

no, nothings detecting a threat, but i just read on other places, that it could be a deleted file, and it makes sense tbh, but anyone know how i can just delete it from the list?

can you right click it and open the file location 

[Flawizz]

2 minutes ago, MrPoopyButtHole said:

can you right click it and open the file location 

no sadly not as i've said

[mariushm]

Download SysInternals Suite from Microsoft : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite

 

There's an application inside called Process Explorer ( procexp.exe  or procexp64.exe for the 64bit version)  - or you can download it separately from here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

 

Try running it as administrator if you can and/or know how (try right clicking on it, and see if you have "Run as administrator" as option)

 

It will tell you more detailed information, it's like a task manager on steroids. You can double click on a process and it will show you lots of things about it.

 

Try it and get back to us, maybe post some screenshots of the properties (when you double click on that line in process explorer)

[Flawizz]

5 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Download SysInternals Suite from Microsoft : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite

 

There's an application inside called Process Explorer ( procexp.exe  or procexp64.exe for the 64bit version)  - or you can download it separately from here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

 

Try running it as administrator if you can and/or know how (try right clicking on it, and see if you have "Run as administrator" as option)

 

It will tell you more detailed information, it's like a task manager on steroids. You can double click on a process and it will show you lots of things about it.

 

Try it and get back to us, maybe post some screenshots of the properties (when you double click on that line in process explorer)

yes ive got it up and running, works fine, but how do i find that ''program'', is there a startup tab in this?

[mariushm]

So it's not actually an application running right now in your computer? 

This process explorer is like Task Manager, it shows what's running NOW on your pc.

 

Sorry, I'm not good at Dutch or German or whatever that is, didn't see it's another tab. 

 

You can use msconfig  (start , run , msconfig.exe ) to see the applications that launch on startup - and you can enable or disable them.

It could be a bogus entry.

For example an application maybe wanted to introduce a feature where you could check to launch at startup and the programmers implemented it half way, like adding the entry to tell the operating system to launch but not setting the right title and the path to the application properly.

Or, it's their dumb way or removing the application from launching, instead of deleting the entry they just deleted the path to application and renamed it to "Program"