Windows 10: Has Anyone identified this 15063.x mystery program/app?

I'm running 15063.14 but it has been there since 15063.0:





Could this possibly be a placeholder for the Mixed Reality Portal (which does nothing at present)?





Just curious,

Regards,



:)

 

Discussion: Windows Update on Windows 10 getting worse with each passing month.

I have 4 laptops that all started out with Vista. They were built in 2009. all are working fine. Two are at 4GB RAM and the other two I have upped to 8GB RAM.

One is used with 15063 and does my watering program. One has 17004. 0ne has 15063 and is Release Preview and the other is at 16299.15.

 

Mystery item in Optimize disks list?

I'm running the Windows 10 defrag manually and am seeing this mysterious entry in the lists of drives:

\\?\Volume{long-hypen-separated-hex-string}

I can't see anyway of identifying what this is (other items are marked with their disk id, C: or D: etc).

This has been there ever since I upgraded to Windows 10 (it did not appear on the Drive list with Windows 8.1 defrag).

Does anyone know what this is and whether it should be there? Is it removable and , if so, how?

Thanks.

 

I have a rule. If a program won't identify itself, it goes. If you've got nothing to hide, then why are you hiding it?

 

Yes, I abide by that rule sometimes; however, this won't uninstall.

 

Have you tried an uninstaller like Revo or Geek Uninstaller?

 

I don't have a blank program like that on my computer, 15063.11

 

I don't want to uninstall it until I find out what it really is.

It only shows up when you run the tools uninstaller from within CCleaner. I have it on both of my Win10 Pro and Home installations.

 

The below instruction are from the Winaero site how to uninstall Mixed Reality

• Close Settings if you have the app opened.
• Open Registry Editor
• Navigate to the following Registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Holographic

• Modify or create a new 32-bit DWORD value named FirstRunSucceeded. Set its value data to 1 to add Mixed Reality to Settings. Set it to 0 to remove the entry
• Open Setting go to Mixed Reality and uninstall from there
  To remove the Icon that's left on the Start menu see the thread here but heed the warnings
  Anyway to remove all the Holographic stuff in Creators Update? - - Windows 10 Forums

 

@shimshorm: Thank you so much for those detailed instruction and I may use them if necessary; however, right now, I am just try to see if anyone else has the same issue when trying to uninstall a blank app (as show in my original post) using CCleaner version 5.28 pportable.

So, can someone (using CCleaner version 5.28 portable) take a look at the Tools> Uninstall menu and see if they see what I see? The blank icon is the first entry on my list of apps that can potentially be uninstalled by CCleaner.

Thank you again for that detailed response.
Regards,

 

I have it too but it was installed on 10-Jan-2017. Of all the processes running only One Drive has no icon.



Could be related.

 

I have this too. I'm on build15063. I think its a placeholder for something.

 

OK guys, thanks for confirming the existence of that blank icon when running CCleaner! Now, I can just leave it alone and assume it is either related to the Mixed Reality or OneDrive (somehow), and if true, then CCleaner either has a bug or needs an update.

However, I am strongly leaning towards the Mixed Reality Service. WHY? Because I have totally uninstalled ONeDrive service in previous builds and CCleaner has never displayed a blank icon before.

So, just for kicks, I tried the WinAero solution (provided by shimshom) and the blank icon remained in CCleaner.

However, the WinAero procedure really doesn't uninstall any related software because the Mixed Reality Portal continued to work when I selected the icon in the start menu (after completing the entire procedure). The procedure simply makes the icon appear in the Settings menu and the uninstall simply removed the FirstRunSucceed DWord (and the icon in the Settings menu); therefore, you could easily get it back by just recreating the FirstRunSucced DWord again (I think).

Anyway, you all were a big help and now I will just leave it alone.

Thanks and regards,



PS: I reloaded an image I made just before doing all this so I'm good to go.

 

Could also be a piece of a driver or something like that. Looking at Programs and features some things don't have any icons:

 

@CountMike: I guess anything is possible at this point; however, as long as I have company with this issue, I'll simply ignore the blank CCleaner reference. However, if anyone finds a solution I would be happy about that as well but I think the problem is on the CCleaner end and I (personally) have no intention of dealing with their support group.