helppane.exe task purpose and description:

Helppane.exe is an executable file, and it most likely came already installed on your PC. Always check the file location which is shown below, as this is a way to verify you have the correct file. Often spyware or malware virus writers use similiar names in hopes to fool you into thinking its a good file, but they place the spyware in other disk locations with the similiar or same name. This file is the main windows help window on Vista computers. Helppane.exe will show in your tasklist when help is activated, however it should not appear or run in your system startup. Sometimes a different help window may appear if the pc vendor has put their own wrapper over the help system, which sometimes occurs. This file is considered to be safe and is not spyware or virus related software. (See the details below for the actual location of this file.)

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

File type:
This is an executable program.

Where is this file and folder located on my computer?
This file will be found at: C:\windows\helppane.exe

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, helppane.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 helppane.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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