Isthg Launcher.exe -

There was a task named MicrosoftEdgeUpdateTaskMachine (sneaky), but when I opened its properties, the action was not updating Edge. The action was:

Because somewhere out there, a forgotten game is still waiting for you to return to The Hinterland . And its launcher has infinite patience.

It was an obscure indie survival horror game, made by a solo dev in Latvia. I had installed it once, played for 20 minutes, gotten lost in a foggy forest, and uninstalled it. ISTHG Launcher.exe

Forty-five second boot time. Open Task Manager. ISTHG Launcher.exe is back. The task had recreated itself.

I opened (because Task Manager is for amateurs, right?) and there it was, nestled between my Nvidia driver helper and my VPN client: It was an obscure indie survival horror game,

Published: October 12, 2023 Filed under: Tech Support, Gaming Horror, Debugging

I killed the process (finally succeeded via taskkill /f /pid in an admin CMD). I deleted the folder. I rebooted, feeling victorious. Open Task Manager

I did what any rational person would do. I Googled it.