Unknown Icon in Task Manager Startup

[dabourzannan]

I found an unknown icon in the task manager stratup tab. I can not find it in C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup. I also could not find it in registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER_\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run,or here HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Is their a way to delete this icon? 

Any help will be appreciated.

 

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[christantoan]

Try using Autoruns

[rudrax]

Yep, run Autoruns as admin and in the logon tab uncheck any suspicious and non-microsoft entries you want. 

[dabourzannan]

50 minutes ago, christantoan said:

Try using Autoruns

 

19 minutes ago, rudrax said:

Yep, run Autoruns as admin and in the logon tab uncheck any suspicious and non-microsoft entries you want.

Thank you gentlemen for your answers, excuse me that I forgot to mention I already used Autoruns and could not find this "NA thing" and it is already disabled. I think and correct me if I am wrong it belongs to a program I uninstalled and this is a left over.

[unknownasphyxiated]

NA and Disabled

you can ignore it

[pc71520]

CCleaner >Tools >Startup

 

Disable or Delete the respective entry.

[dabourzannan]

unknownasphyx, you are right I can ignore it as long as it is not active in anyways, but if I can get rid of it will be better.

 

pc71520 I am not comfortable at all using programs such as CCleaner, and never used them before.

 

Thanks guys for your help.

[christantoan]

Try enabling it and then use Autoruns. Maybe it's not detected because it's disabled. If it still can't be found then it's probably a Task Manager bug

[Kalju]

You do not need to do there nothing and you do not even need to look for anything, because there isn't nothing. You've simply removed some of programs or something else, some of which are left some junk files to somewhere - probably cache.
It have no address, nor does not have the icon, because everything else has been deleted.
You can get rid of it, if you delete and/or update the icon cache, if look over the startup items - recommended to use ProcessManager, Service Manager and ContaxtMenuManager (they are in Yamicsoft Windows Manager).
If this does not work, then just ignore them until the next time, You will do a clean installation.

 

[csmdew]

right click any column and go down to add command line as another column and then you will know what or where it is located

[rudrax]

12 hours ago, dabourzannan said:

 

Thank you gentlemen for your answers, excuse me that I forgot to mention I already used Autoruns and could not find this "NA thing" and it is already disabled. I think and correct me if I am wrong it belongs to a program I uninstalled and this is a left over.

You can try "show/hide Microsoft entries" in the options menu to see if the subject entry appears. 

[dabourzannan]

6 hours ago, christantoan said:

Try enabling it and then use Autoruns. Maybe it's not detected because it's disabled. If it still can't be found then it's probably a Task Manager bug

christantoan Tried that and could not find it in Autoruns.

5 hours ago, Kalju said:

You've simply removed some of programs or something else, some of which are left some junk files to somewhere - probably cache.
It have no address, nor does not have the icon, because everything else has been deleted.

Kalju, most likely this is the case here as it is nowhere to be found.

4 hours ago, csmdew said:

right click any column and go down to add command line as another column and then you will know what or where it is located

csmdew, it has no location as per imaged.

3 hours ago, rudrax said:

You can try "show/hide Microsoft entries" in the options menu to see if the subject entry appears. 

rudrax, can not find it altogether in Autoruns.

 

Thanks a lot for everyone trying to help me. Do you guys think rebuilding icon cache by deleting "IconCache,db" will help?

[Kalju]

1 hour ago, dabourzannan said:

christantoan Tried that and could not find it in Autoruns.

Thanks a lot for everyone trying to help me. Do you guys think rebuilding icon cache by deleting "IconCache,db" will help?

It can be help, but there is nothing definite. Have to say that this is one of many possibilities.
But certainly not do any harm if you do this. Only thing that can happen is that you will have after the operation icons on the desktop confused, to say the placement will be deleted and you need to re-locate them as you want.
But I do not want to recommend to delete it manually (I mean "IconCache,db") , but use Yamicsoft, there is special tool to do it, ie RepairCenter => Icon Repair

[mazigh]

You can read this tutorial and do whatever you want with startup programs, the most efficient for me is Regedit method but risky if you remove sth you don't know

[mikie]

Stuff here on win10 starts that I look for and remove most everything....

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp"
"C:\Users\mike\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"

Computer Management / TaskScheduler

[Kalju]

13 minutes ago, mazigh said:

You can read this tutorial and do whatever you want with startup programs, the most efficient for me is Regedit method but risky if you remove sth you don't know

All of this is valid only if there is something that can be removed, but in this case, about what we are talking here, there is not this thing and it isn't possible to remove  this way.

[dabourzannan]

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2 hours ago, Kalju said:

But I do not want to recommend to delete it manually

You are absolutely right no need to take the risk and as you kindly mentioned before there is not nothing to it.

2 hours ago, mazigh said:

You can read this tutorial

The tutorial is good, if you can locate this program or icon

2 hours ago, mikie said:

Stuff here on win10 starts that I look for and remove most everything....

This is a bold step to take, as I am not that experienced to edit in registry.

 

Thanks guys for helping me and for your time as will, I am sure it is not a malware, as I have checked, and it is not loading on my machine at startup. So I will try and find where the start menu tab gets the icons from and see if I can delete it from there.

[rudrax]

It could be a service. Run services.msc to check if any suspicious service is running up there. 

[dabourzannan]

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On 4/3/2016 at 5:27 PM, rudrax said:

It could be a service. Run services.msc to check if any suspicious service is running up there

 

Excuse me rudrax for the late answer, I did tried your solution, but could not find any suspicious service running. thank you for your answer.

[rudrax]

34 minutes ago, dabourzannan said:

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Excuse me rudrax for the late answer, I did tried your solution, but could not find any suspicious service running. thank you for your answer.

This might be some leftover from 3rd party softwares that you have uninstalled. Have you tried cleaning with Ccleaner? 

[dabourzannan]

3 hours ago, rudrax said:

This might be some leftover from 3rd party softwares that you have uninstalled. Have you tried cleaning with Ccleaner? 

I very much tend to believe it is just as you said, as I can not find it anywhere except in this location. Thanks for the advice of using CCleaner, I will keep this as a last option.