What is this how to get rid of it?

[joyseph]

What is this how to get rid of it? I use Win 8.1

 

[i7Baby]

What's what?

 

[joyseph]

What's what?

program in the picture

 

[PCBuilderProbs]

most likely a registry glitch, as there's no option to open file location and no specific name attached with it. I'm guessing it was a program you uninstalled, but your Windows Registry never properly uninstalled it. Nothing to worry about at least.

 

[i7Baby]

It shows a program that's been disabled. You don't get rid of it.

But you can uninstall the program if you don't want it.

 

[joyseph]

most likely a registry glitch, as there's no option to open file location and no specific name attached with it. I'm guessing it was a program you uninstalled, but your Windows Registry never properly uninstalled it. Nothing to worry about at least.[/quotem

when I want to shut down sometimes the message pops up that this PROGRAM is preventing PC to shut off

 

[joyseph]

It shows a program that's been disabled. You don't get rid of it.

But you can uninstall the program if you don't want it.

But how when I cannot find it on my HardDrive?

 

[i7Baby]

It doesn't matter anyway - its been disabled.

 

[PCBuilderProbs]

if it's preventing Windows from shutting down you can find it running in the processes tab. Then you can track the location of the program through the task manager.

 

[techgeek]

Did you use msconfig or some other program in the past to disable some startups? If so, it's possible that you uninstalled whatever program that startup was associated with, which would explain why there is no information in the name and publisher columns. This often happens since the registry entry is protected by whatever program was used to disable it and then when the program that is associated with the disabled startup is uninstalled the registry entry becomes orphaned.

You could try a program like CCleaner to clean the registry, it should find any orphaned or registry entries that are no longer valid and delete them. Just make sure you make a backup when offered by CCleaner just in case it removes something it shouldn't. It's never happened to me in the many years that I've used it, but always better to play it safe with anything that modifies the registry.