So I got my new laptop at work on friday, and this morning i'm going through the typical install of all my software i need... VS.NET, Office, etc. It's all taking forever and everytime I restart my computer it says “sgtray.exe” must be shutdown manually, so I kill the process and go on.
Well, it turns out that since my Laptop is an IBM Thinkpad with IBM's “Recordnow” application for the CD-RW, this little pseudo-spyware app was installed under the guise of “IBM Recordnow Updater”.
Many Thanks to THIS POST for giving me a clue about this and helping to speed my laptop up immensely (often, the install programs would not run at all, because of this process - including SQL Server SP3a).
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The "SG" stands for "Storage Guard", which is included with several products
by Veritas. T30 models with DVD/CD drives come with the Veritas RecordNow
program preinstalled. This is apparently a way to remove the annoying popup:
If you have RecordNow, sgtray.exe was installed as part of that application.
It can be removed separately, leaving the RecordNow program itself intact:
>Open the control panel, and click on add/remove programs.
>Search for the application called "IBM RecordNow Update Manager".
>Click on the remove button(s). As you remove it, you will see that it is a
Veritas product. Sgtray.exe will go away and RecordNow will stay, with no
need to get into regedit.