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File purpose and description:
The actual disk and folder location is also shown for you below. This program is sometimes shipped with Dell computers and is part of the "My Way Search Assistant". This is a 3rd party program that is not part of Dell. There has been alot of complaints about this arriving on a new computer, as any type of "search assistant" program can be considered adware. If this were on my pc, I would remove it, as I do not want any "search assistant" unless I install it myself. There has also been alot of complaints about the my way search assistant uninstall not working properly, but that part I have not verified. (See the details below for the actual location of this file.)
Actual file or task name:
80ae.msi
File type:
This is an installer program.
File or folder location:
The actual disk location of this program is: C:\Windows\Installer\80ae.msi
General information:
Be aware that many tasks will be similiar names to existing tasks or processes.
You can always view the running tasks on your computer by pressing ctrl-alt-del to view the windows
"task manager", and then view the "processes" tab. This will show you all tasks running or currently active
on your PC. Although this shows you all running tasks, it does not show dll file thats are loaded, as they
get loaded as part of other processes. Many spyware writers attempt to hide their files
on your computer, for example, 80ae.msi may be intentionally misspelled to look like a similiar task, or spyware may be named very
similiar to a Windows system task. The reason they do this is so you cannot easily recognize the name in your tasklist
as I have mentioned above. Make sure always check the location of the file if you are concerned.
You can always find the location of 80ae.msi on your computer by using your Windows search options, but
I will also try to list the file location of every file described on this website, so you can verify the correct location. You can view the entire tasklist directory with the link below.
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