...and today 'something else' is playing up....a new icon was added to this laptop's startup menu...

 

and then 'onplay.exe' began to play up:

 

as I don't play 'wild tangent games' I decided to delete the list below:

 

 

to be left with 'this' - see below:

 

so what was 'that' all about then?

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\HP Games\Mah Jong Medley\MahJong2-WT.exe" /launchgc /src gamesmenuoem

"C:\Program Files (x86)\HP Games\onplay"