Non-existent program in task manager start up

[duckhunt476]

I have a remnant of some program I uninstalled a while ago in my startup programs, named "Setuplauncher". Im pretty sure its, ironically, from an anti virus called bitdefender.

 

It doesnt exist in regedit or the startup programs folder, it simply clutters up startup programs in task manager as far as i can tell.

 

Is there anything i can do about this?

[FireLegend]

Just now, duckhunt476 said:

I have a remnant of some program I uninstalled a while ago in my startup programs, named "Setuplauncher". Im pretty sure its, ironically, from an anti virus called bitdefender.

 

It doesnt exist in regedit or the startup programs folder, it simply clutters up startup programs in task manager as far as i can tell.

 

Is there anything i can do about this?

I know this might sound silly but it does happen. Did you right click on the icon and just press delete or did you delete it in control panel or settings. Also can you show me all of the things on your details page of task manager?

[duckhunt476]

6 minutes ago, FireLegend said:

I know this might sound silly but it does happen. Did you right click on the icon and just press delete or did you delete it in control panel or settings. Also can you show me all of the things on your details page of task manager?

I definetly deleted it, i quickly checked the programs list and there was nothing i didnt recognize.

[FireLegend]

7 minutes ago, duckhunt476 said:

I definetly deleted it, i quickly checked the programs list and there was nothing i didnt recognize.

Unfortunately having bitdefender it comes with that. Have you tried just seeing if its in bitdefender itself

[Oshino Shinobu]

Download Autoruns from Sysinternals (Microsoft) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

 

Unzip it and run it, then click on the logon tab and delete any entries with File not found errors.

 

For example, I have a few in my startup that are the same as yours:

In Autoruns:

 

Delete it and it's fone. Ignore that blank program, that's something else.

 

EDIT: You can also just untick them in Autoruns. That blank program for me is TeamsMachineInstaller. You can just untick them one at a time and see what it removes from the StartUp menu

With it:

 

Without:

[duckhunt476]

42 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Download Autoruns from Sysinternals (Microsoft) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

 

Unzip it and run it, then click on the logon tab and delete any entries with File not found errors.

 

For example, I have a few in my startup that are the same as yours:

In Autoruns:

 

Delete it and it's fone. Ignore that blank program, that's something else.

 

EDIT: You can also just untick them in Autoruns. That blank program for me is TeamsMachineInstaller. You can just untick them one at a time and see what it removes from the StartUp menu

With it:

 

Without:

Does not work unfortunately. At least we confirmed its the shitty antivirus though

 

Edit: I was able to delete it by following the path from Autoruns in regedit and manually deleting it, thanks for the help! It was moved in the Wow6432Node after i disabled it and i was able to delete it. I backed up the registry just in case but it seems fine.