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Last week I did a new clean install on my Windows 10 machine. When the install was done, I checked the startup list to see which apps in the list can be disabled. I found one app called simply "Program". It had no publisher, no icon, nothing.  I disabled it and scanned the registry to see if it was listed anywhere. I found no entries. A Google search produced very little, other than the fact that it is probably malware. I could not get rid of it. A Defender scan came up clean.
However, this morning it was gone. It just disappeared. Does anyone have any idea of its origins and purpose? How did it get in the computer? Thanks!
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I'm pretty sure Microsoft stamps all their executables with a file info resource containing copyright info and version and stuff so if it doesn't have it then it probably didn't come from them.
I'd be a little concerned.
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No idea, but after reading the witch... I would consider another fresh install (including new download of the media tool). Just in case.
M.D.V. 
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It's not an application, it's a message from your boss. He's not happy with the amount of work you are getting done...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Quote: it's a message from your boss
Not Likely! I retired 10 years ago! Ugh! Do you think the old bos never missed me after I retired? 
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Encountered the same thing a while ago. Concluded it was sloppy "RunOnce" coding as part of an installation / update. No real "proof" though (that I can remember.)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Win 10: a phantom hotel where the living and the dead materialize and dematerialize 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Were you using Autoruns to check the startup list? That usually does a very good job of identifying what executables (or other automatically executed/loaded entities) are...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I was gonna say this same thing. I would be downloading system internals and checking autoruns myself.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Cp-Coder wrote: Does anyone have any idea of its origins and purpose? How did it get in the computer?
I told the ET's someone would notice, but did they listen? Noooo! But it seems they have mind-wiped your computer. I'm probably next?
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Did you by any chance download this copy of Windows from a torrent? Pirated copies sometimes come with "extras"
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Nope... he found the issue nad has explained it in a message a couple of hours ago / and some pages newer in the forum list.
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To which you're not going to link, because it was hard work to find, and by god if you'd work for other people for free you'd be homeless.
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Asday wrote: To which you're not going to link, because it was hard work to find, and by god if you'd work for other people for free you'd be homeless.
Yes, I could have done it but didn't think about it. I can somehow say "my bad".
But, to complain about it and don't link it yourself...  (it would have costed you less time to find it and to post it, than to write all that)
What a time waste and a useless sarcasm.
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Here you have. Your are welcome (you don't need to come back to say thank you).
M.D.V.
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I came back to say thank you, and to point out that perhaps this might make you think about it in future, (even if you decide not to act), so the time wasn't wasted.
Plus, I enjoy complaining.
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My message was flagged as potential spam and needing moderator approval, hence the delay and inconsistency
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Does it mean that "Asday" is your socket puppet?
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See here:
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See solution:
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Quote: "The new breed of the Silicon Valley lived for work. They were disciplined to the point of back spasms. They worked long hours and kept working on weekends. They became absorbed in their companies the way men once had in the palmy days of the automobile industry."
Tom Wolfe, 'Hooking Up,' 2000
compare with this from Douglas Copland's 2008 sociological exploration of MicroSoft employees, 'MicroSerfs:'Quote: “Maybe thinking you're supposed to 'have a life' is a stupid way of buying into an untenable 1950s narrative of what life *supposed* to be. How do we know that all of these people with 'no l80's)ives' aren't really on the new frontier of human sentience and preceptions?”
I do not think it is a form of dementia that, like others who came late to programming (1986 for me), and, even later than most to the internet ... cannot now imagine life without the internet.
My years of use of reading books (I was reading at age 5 at a level 2~3 years ahead of my peers), and my intense use of libraries in my academic years, seem ghost-like, dusty, in my memories ... but, they are happy memories.
Now, heading too quickly towards my 1000th. lunation on this planet, and dealing with a down-shift in my usually very high energy level, and diminishing vision, I find myself ...
... while using programs as great as Visual Studio and PhotoShop ... often feeling like I am more the slave of the program, than "master:" that I continually cater to small ritual behaviors required to render what are not too complex results.
It seems surreal I can't just talk to the computer, and say things like:
(Win 10) find me the text files created in 1996 with the words 'extension; and 'generic'.
(PhotoShop) copy the layer, apply high-pass filter, set new layer mode to linear light 25%
(Visual Studio) create a new static extension template named GenericExtenions, define a static method DualDictionary with types D!, D2
... okay, you could, perhaps should, tell me I am lazy; I do know how to write PS macros. And, VS 2019 + ReSharper makes what I used to have to do manually seem primitive ! for file searching I use an at least 12 year old program 'Agent Ransack,' that has always put the execrable Win OS to shame.
Maybe, I am "losing it," maybe, I am finding ?
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 31-May-20 14:26pm.
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The misguided auto analogy:
first there was walking.
Then riding a beast of burden
Then the wheel, followed by the wagon. Drawn by the horse (or other).
Then the automobile, hand crank to start, kerosene lanterns, dirt roads, lousy tires.
Then the electric starter, still stick shift, electric lights. etc.
Then automatic transmission, heat, AC, power everything, more expensive insurance.
Then self driving autos.
First there were computing things, programmed with wires and tapes.
Then there was assembler language
Then there was C language and PL/1, and Basic (oh, wait)
Then there was C++, C#, VB
Then there was the Internet and Java and JavaScript and IE
Then there were shiny frameworks and self configuring stuff and IDE's with intellisense and auto completion and refactors and and... tada QA
Then self programming stuff????
Fill some blanks, fix some errors. Sit back and wait for it, you will be assimilated.
Edit: somewhere along the line, the idiots took over.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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You and I started coding during the same year, but it wasn't "late" for me, as I was eight years old.
In that time, computers have changed some, but software has changed a lot.
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honey the codewitch wrote: In that time, computers have changed some, but software has changed a lot.
I beg to differ: in that time span CPU speed went up by a factor of at least 500, memory size by about 50 (remember "640k should be enough for everyone"), disk size by a good 1000. And that's not mentioning multi-cores, display size and resolution, data transmission speeds and so on.
I cannot see any changes of that magnitude in software. Software bloat was made possible by the spectacular improvements made by our colleagues on the hardware side of the street.
Mircea
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Yeah but it's not new. Same transistor arrays, just biggerBetterFasterMore
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