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What is taskswitch.exe? Taskswitch Powertoy?

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Vendor Website:      http://www.microsoft.com/
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data
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Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

PC Matic Analysis

Purpose: taskswitch.exe - Enhances the Alt-Tab functionality of Windows XP by showing a thumbnail of each application. Taskswitch is unusual because it doesn't include vendor information showing it is from Microsoft. If you installed the XP Powertoys and like the application, then keep using it. Otherwise, uninstall it using Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs.

taskswitch.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.


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taskswitch.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
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taskswitch.exe Technical Information

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.17%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 1 MB

MD5 Hash Analysis

Program Name MD5 Count
taskswitch.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xebd2ea535fc47d426d0c2fc7c7293534 4/7/2019 2:38:00 AM Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 44 KB
2 Status 0x213afcb3ddab32df46e66558940e249a 1/10/2015 2:29:00 AM Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 44 KB
3 Status 0x92e12eb4ba76c58752fa97a14f2d1ea8 1/23/2014 5:51:00 PM Unknown Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 116 KB
4 Status 0x3443480612be64f563d517ac0fedb9e3 1/15/2010 11:27:00 AM Unknown Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 112 KB
5 Status 0xc5027fe49b77079bc1875caa9ef97865 12/20/2009 7:57:00 AM Unknown Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 36 KB
6 Status 0xcbdb9525d5ead0bb7f59e96bb9f70bc9 8/29/2009 3:12:00 PM Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 44 KB
7 Status 0xa54431be95f9361b6950d6b32bbe80e3 7/3/2009 4:51:00 PM Unknown Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 44 KB
8 Status 0xdba9330931cf52d7832bd4658a97f687 8/21/2008 6:12:00 PM Unknown Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 104 KB
9 Status 0x33e8554e2700c1d5aaae9962b5e67d3a 5/22/2008 8:06:00 PM Unknown Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 36 KB
10 Status 0x75fd0f1b3b4e95733c89a9a65a4dbe9a 12/31/2007 Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 14 KB
11 Status 0xd660adb60f7ab89e9fa513d7b3acdfd7 12/31/2007 Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 363 KB
12 Status 0xc8a48bb7d641c70e43b55316350e0618 12/31/2007 Unknown Taskswitch Powertoy 35 KB


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