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More than one possible match was found; all matches are listed below in order of their prevalence. This only tells you what the file and the correct action might be.

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Match #1



appletimesrv.exe (Boot Camp)

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.01%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 2 MB


In addition to the file name, appletimesrv.exe, the following version information is used to identify the file. If the file does not match this information, it may be a different file. To ensure the file is absolutely correct, run a free and comprehensive scan.

Vendor contains:Apple Inc
Product contains:Boot Camp
File name contains:\WINDOWS

To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.



Detailed Description and/or Removal Instructions

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html


Win Patrol

AppleTimeSrv.exe is a part of Boot Camp, a utility included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" operating system that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows on Intel-based Macintosh computers.

appletimesrv.exe  is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.

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MD5 hashes is the way that computers can define the uniqueness of a file. Anti malware vendors frequently use this technique to detect and clean malware. It is common for a program to have multiple MD5 hashes as the developers create newer versions of the program. For the program called appletimesrv.exe, we have detected more than 10 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.

Program Name MD5 Count
appletimesrv.exe> 10
MD5 Hashes
# MD5 Size
1 0xdd21914af18bdb1f50bebe4a34a96369 99632 bytes
2 0x361f9eccd9610d7848c5c9645dab2691 99632 bytes
3 0xbbc0f64c777ac701550441a2d82d640f 99632 bytes
4 0x2f82d2996d86e27ea65e2660ef69219c 99632 bytes
5 0x9d885e1e7ec19fe60c8088e3d20fa978 99632 bytes
MD5 Hashes
# MD5 Size
6 0x7f3eb0ad08e4f1fddfe0748b925e2962 99632 bytes
7 0x1ef24fc85a153f8b1a6517a349b87e30 99632 bytes
8 0x6b3cd1a76c0a2d9dd952251cdd27b697 99632 bytes
9 0x1fe112a35fdf9ed397424b8c46ee056a 99632 bytes
10 0xce2c908b0e01cb1f1ac80695efb3ecb1 99632 bytes

Match #2



appletimesrv.exe (AppleTimeSrv.exe)

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.00%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 2 MB


In addition to the file name, appletimesrv.exe, the following version information is used to identify the file. If the file does not match this information, it may be a different file. To ensure the file is absolutely correct, run a free and comprehensive scan.

Vendor contains:Apple Inc.
Product contains:Boot Camp
File name contains:\WINDOWS\system32\AppleTimeSrv.exe

To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.




Win Patrol

AppleTimeSrv.exe -

appletimesrv.exe  is returning insufficient information about this program.

PC Pitstop recommends WinPatrol Plus for monitoring all of the background activity on your PC. WinPatrol Plus provides an easy to understand descriptions of over 15,000 processes and programs.




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Important Note

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