Mystery Program

September 2, 2011 12:04 PM

Does anyone know what program this is?

When I alt-tab through my open windows this appears. If I go to the task manager it accounts for every program running except this one. I can close it but when I restart my computer it appears again. I have Revo Uninstaller but I don't see an icon that matches.

It appeared about six months after I got this computer. This is an HP laptop, windows7.

Does anyone recognize this?

Thanks for your help.

posted by it's a long way to south america to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Best answer: Go get process explorer and use the funny bulls-eye dohickey button by the menu bar (FAR right, on my vresion), and drag the bullseye "over" that window. That will pop up more info on what it is. (Well, will hilight it in process explorer, then you right-click for more info etc).
posted by k5.user at 12:07 PM on September 2, 2011

The top-left icon is unfortunately generic, so it's not going to help you. It's the default icon that appears for every Microsoft .NET Forms application I've ever built.
posted by rocketpup at 12:17 PM on September 2, 2011 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Awesome! Thanks k5.user and rocketpup!
posted by it's a long way to south america at 12:42 PM on September 2, 2011

This would make an excellent beginning for a "ghost in the computer" story.
posted by benito.strauss at 5:48 PM on September 2, 2011

You can also use autoruns to list everything that automatically starts up on your computer.
posted by DarkForest at 4:54 AM on September 3, 2011