| All comments about ati2evxx.exe: |
 DoNe | it is for ATI Grafik Card user See also: Link |
| leonardox | ATI driver (envent agent) See also: Link |
 Controller | installed with ATI driver (see inf file) |
| Jan | Gehört zu den ATI Treibern |
| Noodle | ATI External Event Utility for WindowsNT and Windows9X -- It appears to be a useless part of the ATI drivers |
| MTO DR DEDO VERDE | Ati utilitie. Nao da nada seus cabaço daporra o nome ta na cara dura. VC FUMA UM BASEADO See also: Link |
 | I can't run any games with my Compaq laptop. I keeps popping me back to my desktop. Once I end task ati2evxx.exe I can play anything |
| Blaine | I have an NVIDIA Card one one PC and this is in my task menu so I disabled it with MSCONFIG... See also: Link |
| JeFFJuH | belongs to the ati videocard driver.. won't hurt your computer :) See also: Link |
| | It's just for your grapics card dumbass! Don't worry about it! |
| HellraZor_from_Hell | It is called "ATI HotKey poller" and seems to be some kind of "event agent". You can disable it in your "services" tab, if you are using WinXP... |
| Token | It is the ATI video card driver |
| | gehört zu Grafikkarte ATI |
| DogETDog | Harmless. |
 Solarity | it eats mem & CPU cycles for no reason - that's harmful. it waits for you to hit certain hotkeys to tell it to change video & res settings, use msconfig to delete it. |
 jay_doog | ok i just uninstalled my ati drivers and am now useing Omega witch i find are way better....but i am not sure if i need this file still...any help?..thx |
 sergio | this is somking of worm, even clearing with spyware remover od adaware remover, it changes name and location, by the way, computer begins to work very very slow |
| Josue Nava | This file recognize when a laptop if connected to a external monitor, TV or projector |
| passerby | definitely part of the ati driver, not harmful. useless maybe? |
| Dog | I read it can be used to manipulate the hotekey feature on ati card likelly if yo have not used the tab when looking through menus its probablly activated so you can delete it its in systems32 folder be sure to always backup before you make changes not responsible for what may be a misnomer .good day |
| DragonHawk | AKA "ATI Hotkey Poller" AKA "ATIPOLL". Not a security threat. Likely a useless waste of resources. Safe to disable. |
| Some one who know that | harmles and can be end tasked or killed or disapled (run msconfig then just unselect it) |
| Sherpah | ati2evxx.exe is the ATI External Event Utility for your ATI display drivers. It manages the ATI Hotkey feature. This process can be removed to free up resources. |
| SB | ATI-driver |
| Stephen4178 | ATI external event utility exe module. Background task when you install ATI Display driver. It registers as the ATI hotkey poller which brings up specific ATI utilities.. Not only is this useless to 99.99% of users but there is NO DOCUMENTIATION ANYWHERE on those hotkeys. It sometimes uses up to 85% of CPU resources. Older versions of this process are known as ATIPOLAB. Thank you Perfect Process freeware for your information. |
| Psychodad | ati2evxx.exe is the ATI External Event Utility for your ATI display drivers. It manages the ATI Hotkey feature. This process can be removed to free up resources without comprimising system performance. |
| RogeeCB | ATI Driver |
| Albert | this is a software for the ati graphics card |
| Truth | It comes with the ATI display adapter. Look at your device manager Display Adapters Driver Details...OMG some people actually think it's a worm. |
| Tron | uses mem & CPU cycles for no reason, works fine w/o it |
| Bastardo | just disable it in services.msc, then reboot |
| d | Never used this process for my ATI card for 2 years |
| BJM | ATI video card driver, I have 2 of them running though. Not quite sure what that is all about |
| tyler | Difficult to switch off. I got it and I don't use ATI drivers. Uses ALOT of memory, will restart if end proccess through task manager |
| Jonas Eriksson | it's used for different key combinations such as alt+F5 for switching between monitors on some laptops. Also it does when you close the lid to your laptop. Can safely be disabled using msconfig under the services tab (but the of course, the key combinations won't work). Personally I think it's a great feature and it doesn't seem to use much CPU anyway. |
| Jackass | It is the ATI-Driver |
| Yaqoob | Its the ati driver. Manages hotkey feature. If removed it free up ram |
| bob | loaded off of many websites when surfing it does slow up my computer. Admittedly it is not new but runs quite fine after I destroy this critter |
| LQ | eats up resources, burned out a power supply,make smy ram mem run at 648 when i only have 512, every 1s life would b better without tis **** |
| Waffen | it hogs ressources and it's safe to /end process it or disable it from the menu |
| JackyDanz | Containing in ATI-Omegadriver See also: Link |
| ScottyDog | This service has been on my computer for sometime. It is installed with the ATI Display driver and runs the Hot Key controls so can easily do things like adjust brightness, etc. without going to the properties/settings. It provides no threat. If you don't use hot keys, simply disable it using methods described above. If you are having other trouble with your display, it is probably due to an out of date driver. |
| HARMLESS | harmless :: something to do with graphics |
| Stitch | i checked out my proces when i first got this comp and ive got an ATI card, this was never one of my processes..... |
| NutZy | ATI Radeon Graphics card |
| planet | ATI External Event Utility, should be disabled by msconfig.exe. Makes System slow. My Win98 Computer get 0e's, BlueScreens and VxD-errors about "mpr.exe" and "msgsrv.exe", all of them caused by "ati2evxx". It uses "WIN32 NetWork Interface Service Process". My Computer starts the "rnaaap.exe" (internet connection) at StartUp together with "Ati2evxx". |
| Nick | I run E-trust AV, the file keeps showing up when i open my IE browser as a virus, and my pc is running rarely slow lately. |
| Marty | ati2evxx.exe is the ATI External Event Utility for your ATI display drivers. It manages the ATI Hotkey feature. This process can be removed to free up resources without comprimising system performance. |
| Ravi | Video Driver. I have 2 instances running. Not sure as to why there should be 2 instances rather than 1. |
| kindlyss | ATI process, no dangerous |
| | this is used with ati graphics cards, it dosent eat or resources or burn out power supplys. and yes it hogs a whole 1.2 meg of resources and if it effects ur pc by taking that amount u serisouly need to buy a new one |
| Boi Le | We can setup many desktops in one PC with ATI graphic card. This file is the service to process hotkeys. Hotkeys can be used to switch between desktops and many other uses. |
| XYZ | Doesn't seem too harmful or useful. I'm disabeling it, because I don't seee the purpose in having it run all the time. |
| Sadboy | Don't worry about it, it's simply a shortcut for your Hot Key oon Keybord(i.e.: +/- brightness) |
| 4daPeace | Part of ATI drivers, just 390kB in memory, not dangerous |
| trekker75 | Hot key utility for ATI Radeon graphics card, not needed |
| Tomasek | It is displayed in task manager two times. Normaly there should be one ati2evxx.exe. If i search for another in explorer it is only one in c:\WIndows\System 32\ dir. And *.Pf file or page file in c:\Windows\Prefetech directory.I think it could be malware of somekind. |
| baskan | Bir boka yaramayan üstelik CPU yu yoran , kanaatimce ATI ye aiy bir spyware |
| angst2000 | this is used to setup Surf Sidekick 3 |
| atisux | It is absolutely useless to 99% of users |
| | after killing it in task manager, it comes back for no reason. I suspect this is some kind of worm using a "harmless" name.. |
| tom | This process took a lot of cpu time after boot for some time and caused OS freezed and picture on second monitor was unstable ,, I have X700 and WinXP |
| | This is NOT a virus nor is it spyware. It's a simple program the catches hotkeys for changing brightness, etc. It should show up as a "keyboard hook" in your virus/spyware scanner. If your computer runs slow because of this process, it is because you installed the driver not correctly. |
| Stumped2 | The Hotkey Poller is not needed if you are not using any of the ATI programable hotkeys...or, if your card is not designed to monitor card temperatures. Disable it in control panel/ administration tools/services |
| jovi | ati display treiber es geht auch ohne |
| | would hang my Internet Explorer, etc. Probbaly a corrupt image, but I'm not sure. deleted it, system's back to normal. |
| Puntoexe | Is the ATI driver |
| Gary | It shows up twice on some peoples task manager because of ATI's Hydrovision (2 monitors). You can remove Hydrovision, but you will still have 1 copy of ati2evxx running in the task manager. If it bothers you, I would recommend removing it from the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run |
| Aekar | It is VERY IMPORTANT that readers understand that there are several ATI2EVXX.EXE files. I do not have any ATI card, no ATI card was ever installed on my computer, and this file got in my computer by some security hole. I can disable the process, and cut it off msconfig but it still manages to run again over and over. It consumes a lot of memory, and is also used as malware to modify your internet research settings (as ZoneAlarm popped to tell me lately). The best conclusion is that there is a file named ati2evxx.exe that is the harmless and not-so-useful ATI driver, and a malware. |
| Ingo | ist ein kleines Programm zur ATI Grafikkarte. |
| RagingBuddhist | ATI related - eliminate with msconfig to keep the resource usage as low as possible |
| Master sn | this is a ati drive for ati videocards. if u have this in your pc and dont have an ati video card it because u're stupid enough to instali it for no reason.THIS IS NOT A VIRUS OR A SPYWARE. If your pc is runing slow its because 3d video cards use a lot of memori, and even u close the game, the memory will no be reallocated, and of course your pc will run slowly See also: Link |
| | Its for a graphics card. not dangerous |
| jason a | This will enable your laptop (with ati card) to turn the monitor on and off as you open and close the lid. |
| werk71 | hot key utility, can be disabled for more resources |
| simsplayer1213 | I noticed that it was slowing down my computer, but I don't know about this stuff..But I think this is what is slowing down my PC |
| Martin | This is needed for ATI Powerplay (power management). It's the service "Ati Hotkey Poller". If you disable it, the fan of your notebook probably won't stop anymore and the battery life time will be decreased. |
| KSD | You know when you plug in an S-Video or DVI cable to your laptop and you hold Function + F5 to toggle between displays well this function is rendered useless if you turn this process off. ATI External Event Utility performs one key function it automatically detects the optimal resolution of a second display hooked into your Video Card via S-Video or DVI. This process saves valuable time as it automatically changes the screens resolution to match the max resolution of your external non primary display. So if your willing to sacrifice this process for like 200 kb of ram then do it. |
| Ben | Initiates the restart of your computer. Communites with Ati Hotkey Poller. Don't know if this is problematic but my computer keeps on shutting down randomly (ATI card overheating?) and ati2evxx.exe is the culprit. |
| mike | It's a harmless (and useless) service from ATI that allows you to change video settings using HotKeys. Disable the service.... |
| BeerTent | Used with ATi Videocard Drivers. Its for hotkeys. Unless you use hotkeys to configure your video settings, disable it. |
| Martin | This is needed for ATI Powerplay (power management). It's the service "Ati Hotkey Poller". If you disable it, the fan of your notebook probably won't stop anymore and the battery life time will be decreased. |
| Shark | well, if you have troubles with your Video Card, this nifty little thing can notify the ATI Software to restart your VPU and the OS to reboot your system if it halts... not sure it can cause system halts, but i can say this: if you have a well-maintained computer (no halts and it works fine, no parts of it have *burning* marks, no overheating etc) then you don't need it... if your video card is running suspiciosly (e.g. works under Windows excelent, but crashes withing 15 mins when you run a game) than this can be a life-saver... or the one that's causing it to reboot by notifying the OS.... |
| Peter Dassow | Das Tool ist zwar nicht gefährlich, aber eigentlich nutzlos, da alle Einstellungen auch mit der Systemsteuerung - Anzeige - Einstellung - Erweitert einstellbar sind. Kostet auf meinem Notebook nur CPU Last. Kann man per SERVICES.MSC auf "manueller Start" setzen. |
| Geroge | if you have a laptop with an ATI video card and you want to use an external monitor or projector then DONT REMOVE THIS SERVICE |
| KrisWald | totally useless and if u arent using it u shouldnt have it up. |
| Brett Kitchens | It IS a useless ATI process, but STMgr will not remove it. Sometimes it appears twice in task mgr. It's been here a while, but now I decide to turn it off, and "it won't let me"! Yhis looks like malicious crap to me. I'm fixing to delete the DLL or something........... |
| Mediarocker - IT Administrator | This file is NOT a virus or spyware. this file is used by ATi Graphics cards on laptops (i am not sure about desktops though) this is a driver used by your ATi Card. it is usualy essential to system stability. if you do not run an ATi Card then you may want to check your system for viruses. In most cases DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE. atisux's opinion is an incorrect one this file is REQUIRED by your ATi Graphics card. |
| | Appeared only after having a serious spyware invasion on my computer. This is NOT for my graphics card, this is spyware. |
| P | As said Its a ATi hotswap program, Useless unless connecting third party monitors. Unfortunately there are problems arising with the new dual cores when they steadily increase resources over a couple hours to a point where games and other rendering programs becom un-usable. |
| wuyanxu | This process generated keyboard lag in most games i played. Disable this if you don't have a laptop. as KSD said, it is important for laptop users only! See also: Link |
| Thomas | For ATI Catalyst Control Center (CCC). Seems to control both the hotkeys and the Overdrive (automatic overclocking) feature. Disabling this disables the overdrive feature in the CCC for me. |
| Oliver | ATI Hotkeys seem to work even when this service is not running. |
| | ati powerplay (accessible from advanced settings of your monitor/screen) needs to have the ati hotkey poller service. If this service is not running, powerplay will be stuck to whatever condition it was running in before. Use it if you want to save laptop battery power with Powerplay. |
| Peter Anton | While not dangerous in a viral sense, it did cause grief to terminal services. Setting up RDP with environment chosen to launch into an app, this exe also boots as a process for the RDP user. When the user closes the environment's launch application, RDP should disconnect them. The app ati2evxx.exe is also launched for each connection, and refuses to shut down, causing the terminal connection to stay open. SOLUTION: Disable the service ATI Hotkey Poller, and this app will not lauch, allowing RDP users to properly release their sessions when quitting their launch application. |
| spider | Yeah I'm pretty sure I have no ATI graphics card - or any dedicated graphs at all, just intel integrated. If this is the case for you too, killing it and even deleting it won't stop anything running If anything it will free up a little chunk of mem and end some problems with games. |
| Hugo | Have two of this exe run as services. and it's normal. You can disable the Windows service named Ati Hotkey Poller in the services settings. If you disable this service you will loose the ability to use the following ATI services: Hot Key Poller, VPU Recovery, Overdrive/Temp Monitor.The Overdrive tab will actually be removed from the control panel. If you disable the HotKey Poller you may also want to do the following tweak: Go to C:\Windows\System32 Locate Ati2evxx.dll and rename it to ati2evxx.dll.old. This will prevent an annoying boot lag caused by disabling the Ati2evxx.exe in services. See also: Link |
| Dr Pc | This is the Vga driver for Ati settings in the desktop menu |
| Johnny Faster | I have a dual-core Opteron 165 and 2 instances of this running. I think at the very least it's unnecessary bloat, but it could also be malware with the same name as the legit executible. |
| Wojciech Jaskowski | This process caused my inspiron e1505 laptop (radeon x1300) to hung up when I was disconnecting the AC adapter. |
| manik1013 | its a component of ati graphics driver. its very useful to laptop owners. i dont see a need for it on a desktop, unless u switch between monitors. on my system, i press fn key+space, and it switches resolution, and a number of non graphic apps, like wireless, touchpad on/off, brightness, hibernate, and standby. i think its good, but i have a laptop. |
| milankumar | slowing down the machine no harm in disabling the process |
| | ATI Driver |
| cell | It is useless on cards until x1900 series. It is used on x1900 and above to change from 2D to 3D clocks. Your card is on 2D clocks when in desktop mode but when you start a game hotkey poller changes your clocks to 3D clocks. This is used to lower the heating and PSU consuption in desktop mode. |
| Phage | This is a part of the ATI graphics card drivers, and is useful! What it does (among other things) is detects 3D applications and ramps up the core and memory clocks to handle it. Otherwise it runs in 2D mode, using less power and making less heat. If disabled it may leave your card in 2D mode, retarding performance. |
| Gyzmo | Its generally not a virus or malware. Used for power management with ATI Graphics cards...may sometimes cause laptops monitors to no longer respond if switched from AC power to battery power. Can be disabled in Safe Mode to keep from lockup up display. No fix found for it currently. |
| | Completly uselless, can't br configured and may cause some programs to crash when they use the same hotkeys this service use. Can be deactivated as service oder completly removed in msconfig witout any problems |
| | Acer ePower Management DMC |
| atomizer | Can confirm, as others have stated, that this is used to poll keys for display settings and therefor is probably not needed. HOWEVER, my old desktop PC would not restart properly with it disabled -- windows shutdown fine, but i would have to reset the power supply manually to finish rebooting. Took me a long time before i realized this was caused by disabling this service. |
| Shaun | Not dangerous, part of ATI graphics cards software driver |
| FW | Usually harmless, but is the source of a problem caused by an October Steam update for all Half-Life mods (CS, Sven, NS, etc.). Removing this process from the processes tab has fixed the mouse & keyboard slowdown glitch. |
| Andreas | This is the hotkey listener for your ATI card (it may have other uses too), However this process sometimes causes screen flickering and system lag time, especially when using an external screen or TV. I have not yet gotten rid of the process but I've found a way around it using Omega drivers. See also: Link |
| | this can be for a virus or card. iv never had it before and i think i have a virus now but i installed ati drivers so think its for that |
| | use for ati display |
| BadCash | As many of the previous posts have stated, it's the ATI Hotkey driver, which lets you switch between multiple monitors by a using hotkeys (ex. CTRL+ALT+F). But it's also used to automatically detect when you connect an external monitor to your laptop! If you disable this, you won't automatically get a picture on your external monitor when connected via DVI. When I enabled it again (using Administrative Tools/Services) I immediatly got picture output (clone) on my external monitor. |
| Oely | Das ist ein Programm welches den 2d/ 3d Takt steuert. Deaktiviert man den Dienst "ATI External Event Utility", so switched die Karte nicht mehr auf den 3D Takt in Games! |
| Ryan Hole | It uses a name similar to that of an ATi video card driver but is not stored in the correct location. It is a trojan and it does need to be removed. |
| Blake | ATI Hotkey poller. Installs with all Radeon drivers. Most people never notice it. However, it frequently seems to start hogging CPU on its own. The effect of this can be seen as "Jerkiness" in 3D games and videos. As a rule, I disable this in services every time I upgrade an ATI driver. I've never had a problem from disabling, but it almost always causes me issues if I don't disable it. Multiple computers (We have 4 with ATI cards, both laptops and desktops) and it has adverse effect on all of them. |
| PowerShot-x | Additionally some of our more inquisitive users have been able to prove that ATI2EVXX can sometimes be an incredible resource hog using up to 85% of CPU utilization. |
| PowerShot-x | You can disable the Windows service named Ati Hotkey Poller in the services settings. If you disable this service you will loose the ability to use the following ATI services: Hot Key Poller, VPU Recovery, Overdrive/Temp Monitor.The Overdrive tab will actually be removed from the control panel. If you disable the HotKey Poller you may also want to do the following tweak: Go to C:\Windows\System32 Locate Ati2evxx.dll and rename it to ati2evxx.dll.old. This will prevent an annoying boot lag caused by disabling the Ati2evxx.exe in services. |
| dragon777 | ati graphics driver or ati tool overclocking utilitiy, 3d triggers oc settings or hotkeys also reboot because of card crashing. |
| Brad | I had the Ati2evxx.exe error on my Dell XPS 400, with Radeon Graphics card. I found a new video driver on the ATI website (dated 28 March 2007), downloaded it and it fixed my problem. If you have the same error upon bootup, then goto the ATI site, look for your driver, and you just might have found your fix. |
| thatspsychotic | Two types, if run by systems, it is an ATI graphics feature. Otherwise, it is malware and should be deleted. If concerned, enable your task manager to display I/O reads, and if the number is large (10^5 or 10^6 shortly after boot), it is no good, otherwise it's the driver. Be especially aware if you do not run an ATI card, or if the process shows up twice. The designer may have named it such to mask it's identity as a data miner. May show up in startup tasks as a blank entry. If such is the case, disable immedately. |
| White Hawk | Associated with ATI drivers, though non-essential. Disabling this will reduce driver-specific functionality to standard Window's configuration options. Removing this will not disable external monitor support - the user may fall back upon Window's own switching methods. Disabling this will disable dynamic performance options; game-specific quality settings will not be invoked. |
| Mario | Say what you want, NO PROCESS should appear duplicated in the task manager. This is not normal, and may cause the video configuration to be unstable. ATI or not, it is useless. May not be harmful, but it surely does something WRONG. |
| Chris | Like most have said, Spyware and most other virus/problems can disguise themselves as a harmless file. If you have more then one file with the same name in the same place, most likely is spyware or something of that nature. |
| t31os | Ati graphics executable, not sure if its included as part of the driver or Catalyst Control Center, but it does apply to desktop PCs not just Laptops. It shouldnt be present on a system running an Nvidia card unless you have a motherboard with built in ATI graphics for example, but when than i'd recommend disabling the onboard graphics and using the seperate card. Its a safe file thats for sure. |
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