Solved What does NA in StartUp mean?

[visruth]

I had disabled NCPluginUpdater from autoruns but it reappeared,

Disabled the corresponding .exe file from task scheduler ,

Hope that will take care of that

 

[visruth]

Well guys, sorry for bothering again

The problem reappeared again today.

I don't know if this has any relation to the Disk cleanup, clearing of temp, %temp% & complete clearing of Internet history and cookies I do - I had been doing this every week. I had done the maintainence yesterday night. Restarted the system twice , nut no problem in start up times - was fast ~ <20seconds (till appearance of Desktop)

But today when I started up - the same old delay in startup reappeared - ~ 40-60seconds

So, as usual I checked Autoruns - NCPluginUpdater (the same registry key & exe file as I got to see previous instance) was there in the Logon tab CHECKED

I followed the exact steps I done last time to see if HP bloatware - PC Health Analysis was the culprit this time (In Task Scheduler) - BUT NO, it was in Disabled state itself & the last run date was the same as the last time I saw it.

Then I just went through Task Scheduler Library -

There were GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore & GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA - two I could notice ran just around the time I started up the laptop today.
They are assigned with trigger :
GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore - Daily & at logon of any user
GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA - daily & thereafter hourly

But, I had not disabled these last time & I've not got startup problem again until today (1 week after)- so I don't think they are the culprits

Any idea - what could be causing the startup delay , I understand that NCPluginUpdater is the enduser culprit here - But I'm not able to permanently disable it from Startup , something is triggering it to show up again (probably weekly basis & after some trigger enabling it - on user logon basis thereafter) - & it is Not HP health analysis or other hp bloatwares this time (as far I could see from Task scheduler)

Could someone help me out - to get this thing out - Or is it that it cant be done at all?

Thanks guys!

 

[visruth]

So here is the latest update on this one :

NCPluginUpdater reappears in the startup only if I do a whole Internet explorer clean up (not reset) & clear the temp & %temp% folders , then restart system.

Since I couldn't find the exact source causing the reappearance -hope this info would remind anyone reading this - of what should I do to prevent it again from appearing.

Thanks guys...

 

[visruth]

After I installed WinPatrol (as per advice from David Bailey ), I could finally identify the cause of NCPluginUpdater reappearing in Start-up now - it is HP Support assistant in-built HP driver-updates checker.

So, this issue remains solved

Thanks to everyone here especially David, WinPatrol automatically reminded me of NCPluginUpdater getting added to startup following HP Update checker activation somehow ! :thumb: