ID unknown startup item?

[William Pine]

I'm running XP Home.

While recently using msconfig to look at startup items and deactivate things
I didn't want to start when I boot, I noticed W815DM. Can anyone tell me
what it is, what it does, and whether I need it to run on startup?

The command is C:\WINDOWS\W815DM.exe. The location is
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

FWIW, I checked Pacman's (Paul Collins's) 4649 item long Sartup application
List, http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php, to no avail.

I'm reluctant to turn it off to see what happens, because it's a shared
family computer, and I won't necessarily get good feedback on what goes
wrong and when.

Thanks,

Bill

 

[Guest]

Bill,

Can’t find any references either… But I would kill it.

Here the list of sites:
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_d.htm
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm

Hope this helps!

 

[David Candy]

Right click it and see what the version info says.