Strange startup program called "Program"

In addition to running a scan as ZigZag recommended, you can investigate a little further by right-clicking the column headers in Task Manager. Right-click and choose "Command Line" for example, and you can see what the full path to the program is being used to run that program:

In addition to running a scan as ZigZag recommended, you can investigate a little further by right-clicking the column headers in Task Manager. Right-click and choose "Command Line" for example, and you can see what the full path to the program is being used to run that program:

Oh, of course. I wonder why I didn't get the idea that there are more columns that can be displayed.

After investigating the commands it seems to be quite harmless. On of the programs apparently is Realtek HD-Audio, the other two belonged to another program that I recently installed but uninstalled again.

So why is the name "Program" shown? Well, there is a mistake in the filepaths which is a quotationmark that doesn't belong there. One example:

"C:\Program" Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\RAVCpl64.exe -s

As you can see, the quotation mark after Program is not supposed to be there. It causes the path to end there, so that "Program" is being interpreted as the file name. Why this error occured for multiple entries independently and whether it is caused by a problem of my system or it is due to an error in the programs that created them I can not explain. I will see if in the future more such erroneous entries occur.

Nevertheless I'm going to do the malware scan. It won't hurt. Theoretically it could also be malicious software trying to disguise itself as harmless and broadly used programs.

In addition to running a scan as ZigZag recommended, you can investigate a little further by right-clicking the column headers in Task Manager. Right-click and choose "Command Line" for example, and you can see what the full path to the program is being used to run that program:

Oh, of course. I wonder why I didn't get the idea that there are more columns that can be displayed.

After investigating the commands it seems to be quite harmless. On of the programs apparently is Realtek HD-Audio, the other two belonged to another program that I recently installed but uninstalled again.

So why is the name "Program" shown? Well, there is a mistake in the filepaths which is a quotationmark that doesn't belong there. One example:

"C:\Program" Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\RAVCpl64.exe -s

As you can see, the quotation mark after Program is not supposed to be there. It causes the path to end there, so that "Program" is being interpreted as the file name. Why this error occured for multiple entries independently and whether it is caused by a problem of my system or it is due to an error in the programs that created them I can not explain. I will see if in the future more such erroneous entries occur.

Nevertheless I'm going to do the malware scan. It won't hurt. Theoretically it could also be malicious software trying to disguise itself as harmless and broadly used programs.

OK, same issue here with a different program (GROOVE.exe).  How do you edit the command line to correct the issue?

Please download the free version of Malwarebytes.
Update it immediately.
Do a full system scan
Let us know the results at the end.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products

This would be an incorrect course of action.

clearly you're advertising, not diagnosing. Shawn 'Cmdr' Keene [MVP] ,  thank you for your solution. I thought it'd be a removed app (redundant file info usually indicates this). atleast now, I'm sure of it

Please download the free version of Malwarebytes.
Update it immediately.
Do a full system scan
Let us know the results at the end.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products

LOL cause on my PC it is malwarebytes that is the rouge program in startup named "PROGRAM" it must be from some sort of error or file without attributes.

One thing I've noticed is this:

"C:\PROGRAM" FILES/MALWAREBYTES/ANTI-MALWARE\mbamtray.exe

the end quote is out of order it is EXACTLY like I typed it above but on every other entry it is after the .exe except this one.

I have no idea how to change that maybe someone does.

You can check the column "Type" in the task manager. It tells you whether the startup entry originates from the registry or from an autostart folder. If it's in the registry open up regedit and check the different locations where autostart options can be defined. One of them would be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run\. There are several other ones, just google. Then navigate there, find the problematic entry, and correct it.

As an alternative, you could just disable the entry.