Mysterious program in my taskbar. Please help!?

buddy... I have no idea what the thing is, and trust me I know a lot of programs.

This might not be the answer you are looking for but try asking the guys at Microsoft.com if this doesn't work. they have live chat support.

I will ask my friends to see if anyone of them knows anything about this.

ps: thanks for the pictures very helpful.

I use an older version of Windows, but I'm guessing based on your running processes (great idea to post the pics btw!) that you have a Windows Media Edition version. I'm also guessing that it might be the "ehtray.exe" running process. I would not stop or mess with it until you get conformation/more info on that process...Contacting Microsoft support is a good idea. What you want to find out is if you can disable or hide that icon without affecting anything else. I'll leave a link to a search page with computer help sites also.. Hope that helps!... :)... EDIT: Jeeze, is it that simple to just right click?! It may be, right click probably has a hide or exit option... Kudos to "globeweasel" for having a brain, if so!...

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Just taking an educated guess, i would say it belongs to the media tray.

right click it