what is this?

[Crunken]

Was just going through launch options on my pc to change some apps and i saw this, have no idea what it could be? anti-virus doesn't detect anything and my pc is running fine, but never seen this before

This is in the "Startup" tab in task manager

Didn't know what topic to post in so i just put it here, sorry if it's the wrong place

[minibois]

Can you right click and see the file location where it points you?

[WkdPaul]

Just now, minibois said:

Can you right click and see the file location where it points you?

^ this

 

right-clic and select "open file location"

 

That will tell you what it is from the folder name.

[Crunken]

Just now, minibois said:

Can you right click and see the file location where it points you?

no, the option to do so is gray'd out

[The King of the Undead]

try search online.

[minibois]

1 minute ago, Crunken said:

no, the option to do so is gray'd out

Probably a broken program. Maybe you uninstalled a startup program recently that didn't clean up after itself well-enough.

You could take a look in the startup folder to see if there is anything left over there:

C:\Users\YourUserNameGoesHere\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

 

[Crunken]

2 minutes ago, will4623 said:

try search online.

It just searches "program" on bing, so i just get TV channel websites

[Crunken]

2 minutes ago, minibois said:

Probably a broken program. Maybe you uninstalled a startup program recently that didn't clean up after itself well-enough.

You could take a look in the startup folder to see if there is anything left over there:

C:\Users\YourUserNameGoesHere\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

 

Yeah that's what i was thinking, don't remember if i uninstalled anything recently or not

The startup folder is empty

[Crunken]

20 minutes ago, minibois said:

Can you right click and see the file location where it points you?

 

19 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

^ this

 

right-clic and select "open file location"

 

That will tell you what it is from the folder name.

 

I enabled command line in task manager, so now i can see the file location. It's apparently HyperX NGenuity, i had it installed like 3 months ago when i was trying out the cloud flights, i'll try to delete all the files in there manually and post my results here  

[Crunken]

15 minutes ago, Crunken said:

 

 

I enabled command line in task manager, so now i can see the file location. It's apparently HyperX NGenuity, i had it installed like 3 months ago when i was trying out the cloud flights, i'll try to delete all the files in there manually and post my results here  

Checked the file location, and there isn't even a folder called "HyperX" which it says there is, i deleted all files that file explorer search could find while searching for "HyperX" 
Anything else i can do or do i just have to live with it? xd

[Crunken]

53 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

^ this

 

right-clic and select "open file location"

 

That will tell you what it is from the folder name.

Tried to delete the files but the folder wasn't there, so i tried deleting it via command prompt but that didn't work either. Is there anything else i could try or should i just leave it?

[WkdPaul]

29 minutes ago, Crunken said:

Tried to delete the files but the folder wasn't there, so i tried deleting it via command prompt but that didn't work either. Is there anything else i could try or should i just leave it?

If the folder isn't there that means it was either not uninstalled properly, or manually deleted.

 

To remove it from the Startup tab, you have to go in the registry ;

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

 

If it's not there, it might be in the startup folder ;

%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\

[Crunken]

52 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

To remove it from the Startup tab, you have to go in the registry ;

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

It worked to delete it in registry, it's gone from task manager as well. Thanks for the help!