Process with no visible name in startup?

[Davidoo1]

I run msconfig every once in a while just to see what is starting up on my system and saw an item I hadn't seen before (at least I don't remember it being there).

Under the "startup" tab, there is an item checked, but the "startup item" name is blank. Also the "Command" column is blank. In the "Location" column, it shows HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.

Any ideas what this could be? I haven't taken the check mark out and restarted yet. Thought I'd ask some of the experts first. Maybe all XP startup folders contain this blank startup item.

Thanks....

[andyms18a]

its a redundent entry left over from a program that used to start with windows put you stoped it you can run regedit and remove the link so its not in msconfig any moor

[TwoRails]

I have one of those also, but can't find it in the Registry. There was talk in another thread of "hidden" entries. Could this possibly be one of them?

[Davidoo1]

Originally posted by andyms18a its a redundent entry left over from a program that used to start with windows put you stoped it you can run regedit and remove the link so its not in msconfig any moor

Thanks....you were right. I recently installed an ATI tuner card and it has a stupid special taskbar called the ATI launchpad that loads on startup. I had disabled the automatic load on startup. Using regedit, the only item shown in that entry was for the ATI launchpad, but the file was blank because I had disabled it. When I went in and let it load on startup, the ATI file name appeared. Since I'm not using it, I deleted the entry and probably saved a microsecond on startup!

[andyms18a]

no problem i had the same thing with my ati vid card