bds.exe task purpose and description:

Bds.exe is a program file which you would have installed yourself on your own computer. The exact disk location is also shown below to verfiy it is not spyware, as many spyware programs use similiar names and just locate them elsewhere on your hard drive. Always check the proper disk location of your programs if you are suspicious. Bds.exe is a common name, short names like this can often be used by many companies, this one is most often associated with Borland Software (not Codegear software) and the Delphi installation. The BDS.exe is for the Borland Database Engine (as it used to be called), and this will be a running task if you install Delphi software. This file is considered safe and is not spyware. (See the details below for the actual location of this file.)

Actual process or task name: (You can view alphabetical task list here)
bds.exe

File type:
This is an executable program.

Where is this file and folder located on my computer?
This file will be found on your disk drive at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{AB3EC276-D261-4943-A921-1CC1C6799AED}\corex\B2284239\1CC39CF2 and also at C:\Program Files\CodeGear\RAD Studio\5.0\bin

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, bds.exe 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 bds.exe 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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