What are these tasks in Autoruns?

My Dell Inspiron 7537 laptop is showing these Autoruns enries in yellow. What are they and can I delet them?

Some elements in Autoruns are highlighted with red or yellow: Yellow means that the item is exist in registry, but the file is not found. Red means that the item's in the registry, the file is in place, but the Publisher string is empty

You can delete it as the file does not exist.

FreeBooter said:

You can delete it as the file does not exist.

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The Colors Legend description is correct - that's what they mean. But Microsoft changed the path for some Windows files (personalized paths for each system) - while Autoruns still uses the old paths - since there's no path defined with their registry entry (right-click "Jump To Entry" in Autoruns). Thus, some files can appear in registry - while not in folder cause they're truly not there. BUT... they might still exist elsewhere.

For example: the old path for many of this yellow labeled files - used to be C:\Windows\SysWOW64 - that being the same path that still appears in Autoruns

Yet, Microsoft places this files in a personalized path which looks something like: C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-wow64_2kk4ll34l2h2j43_10.0.22621.2506_none_4700haket3x\r - the full path has a different entry on each PC - except for C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-wow64_ and 10.0.22621.2506

In theory, Autoruns could simply scan/search - and find the exact path - but some .exe/.dll can have 5 paths for same registry entry.

That being said, use a 64 bit Windows File Search app (like Everything) - and search for the files - to see if they still/actually exist before deleting them. This could be indeed a case of orphan registry entries.

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I also have them. Some can be deleted but they are later re-created. I stopped chasing them. They have not done any harm, I believe.

Steve C said:

My Dell Inspiron 7537 laptop is showing these Autoruns enries in yellow. What are they and can I delet them?
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I have these too. They are scheduled tasks and I have always suspected that this is the result of a Windows Update that moved or deleted the C:\WINDOWS\Syswow64\MusNotification.exe file without changing or deleting the tasks that need it. The tasks run using system privileges and can only be modified or deleted with software that can elevate you to that level, like PowerRun or Microsoft's PsExec.

PsExec - Sysinternals

Ben