Control Center for Norton Antibot from Symantec - which "provides advanced, real-time protection against emerging threats, including bots that are used to perpetrate identity theft and other online crimes" and "protects your PC from unauthorized access and tampering, detects and stops attempts by hackers to take remote control of your computer, and delivers extra protection against emerging 'zero-day' threats." Designed to work with existing antivirus software but now discontinued

Eset's NOD32 antivirus. Runs as a service on an NT based OS (such as Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP)

Eset's NOD32 antivirus

Appears to be related to the first run of Nero Home, which "combines television and the recording of television programs with playback of DVD-Videos and audio/video files in an easy-to-use interface" and "can also catalog them and organize them into individual libraries." Included in versions 7 and 8 of Nero digital media suites (CD/DVD burning, authoring, etc). Loads only on the first reboot after installation via the HKCU\RunOnce key

Appears to be related to the first run of Nero Home, which "combines television and the recording of television programs with playback of DVD-Videos and audio/video files in an easy-to-use interface" and "can also catalog them and organize them into individual libraries." Included in versions 7 and 8 of Nero digital media suites (CD/DVD burning, authoring, etc). Loads only on the first reboot after installation via the HKCU\RunOnce key

Covenant Eyes - surveillance software that creates records of everything people do on a computer, ie, spying or monitoring depending upon how you call it. Disabling it means loss of internet connection until re-enabled - therefore required if you use it

Part of Symantec's now discontinued Norton Personal Firewall and also included in older versions of Norton Internet Security (now Norton Security Deluxe). Also part of their now discontinued Symantec Client Firewall (part of Symantec Client Security for business customers). Runs as a service on an NT based OS (such as Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP)

Part of Symantec's now discontinued Norton Personal Firewall and also included in older versions of Norton Internet Security (now Norton Security Deluxe). Runs as a service on an NT based OS (such as Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP)

NetHASP License Manager developed by Aladdin Knowledge Systems (who became SafeNet and are now part of Gemalto) - "allows multi-license keys to be used with just one USB key over the network"

Utility that only runs once after installing the Nokia Software Updater which is used to update the operating system (or firmware) for selected Nokia mobile devices

Utility that only runs once after installing the Nokia Software Updater which is used to update the operating system (or firmware) for selected Nokia mobile devices

NetRocket Accelerator customized user interface for Slipstream - internet acceleration through compression/decompression techniques, intelligent cacheing on the server side, and real-time conversion of large/high-bandwidth images to less bulky pix

Firewall install monitor for older versions of Symantec's security products including Norton Internet Security (now Norton Security Deluxe), Norton AntiVirus (now Norton AntiVirus Basic) and the now discontinued Norton SystemWorks suite. Helps detect immediately after boot-up whether the firewall part is currently installed and working properly, whether it is currently enabled or disabled, and what features of the firewall are turned on. Runs as a service on an NT based OS (such as Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP)

NVmax is a old tweaking utility for NVidia graphics cards. In the startup list if the user chooses to overclock their card

Part of an older version of ConfigSafe from imagine LAN, Inc. - which lets you identify changes to the registry, INI files, System asset files, system hardware, network connections, and operating system versions - provides a restore function. "Checks if an ntfssos restore has been performed since it was last run. It exits immediately after running. 99+% of the time it will only execute about a dozen instructions before exiting"

System Tray access to the NVIDIA ActiveArmor hardware-optimized firewall built into some older nForce 3 and 4 series motherboard chipsets

System Tray access to the NVIDIA ActiveArmor hardware-optimized firewall built into some older nForce 3 and 4 series motherboard chipsets

Utility that only runs once after installing the Nokia Software Updater which is used to update the operating system (or firmware) for selected Nokia mobile devices

Part of Novell (now part of Micro Focus) Netware. Displays the red "N" tray icon which can be disabled (by right-click on the icon) but is also needed by the client