can't remove modem on hold

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I have an application, an applet I am told, that loads at
user startup. The applet is called modem-on-hold.

I don't need it and want to make it go away, but I cant
find where it gets started. Its not in the startup folder.
I have searched the registry and can't find that string.

How do you find an app like that. Where does it hide.
It doesn't show up anywhere under its own name.
 
In said:
I have an application, an applet I am told, that loads at
user startup. The applet is called modem-on-hold.

I don't need it and want to make it go away, but I cant
find where it gets started. Its not in the startup folder.
I have searched the registry and can't find that string.

How do you find an app like that. Where does it hide.
It doesn't show up anywhere under its own name.
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It may have installed with your modem software. Check the vendor's
site.

Also:
http://www.modemsite.com/56k/v92moh.asp
may help explain why "modem on hold" is too generic a classification to
know exactly what is responsible.
 
I tried that but I don't remember the modem manufacturer.
Thought maybe there was a place I could check in the
registry to see what was started so I could remove it.
I have read the article in question already. My first move
was to search the net.

Thanks,
kent
 
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I tried that but I don't remember the modem manufacturer.
Thought maybe there was a place I could check in the
registry to see what was started so I could remove it.
I have read the article in question already. My first move
was to search the net.
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Without knowing either the executable name or the process name I have
no ideas. A careful review of all the processes running using
something like Process Explorer (Sysinternals) and examining each
suspect process for it's command line should yield the executable
names and paths. If one of them appears in one of the standard
Startup locations in the registry you can temporarily remove it and
observe the results. Possible Autoruns (Sysinternals) will help with
that.

It could I suppose be built into a driver... That would be difficult
unless the vendor has some Options setting somewhere.

Device Manager does not indicate any information about the Make and
Model of the modem? And the drivers in use? Maybe a reporting tool
such as AIDA32 could help with that.
 
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