| All comments about ehtray.exe: |
 Al Hanke | when this applet runs on startup my screensaver will not activate if set for more than one minute, don't know yet |
| Graham Hill | I have this running on my system with no screen-saver problems. |
| Jim Kelley | When I disable this applet my screen-saver works fine. |
| JonDoe3k | Looked up 'ehrecvr' which is a Windows Media program necessary for watching live tv. This is in the same folder (C:\WINDOWS\ehome) and claims to be a part of Windows XP and a Media Center Applet |
 chance | etray.exe is microsoft product, however can be manipulated with spyware and malware |
| Harry | I have had problems with my screensaver activating whenever ehtray is running. This program loads in the MSconfig section. You can disable it (uncheck)in MSCONFIG mode. This program does load whenever you activate Media Center. When you close Media Center you can goto Task manager and end the ehhome.exe task. Then your screensaver will work again |
 Kevin Day | It is absolutely the cause of my screen saver and monitor auto turn off problems. It took me hours to figure this out and I went one at a time enabling startup items until I ruled them all out but this. I have a microsoft wireless mouse and keyboard as well as XP media center on an HP m7277c |
| Weldon | With ehtray.exe running my screensaver will not activate. |
| chinnman | Is a Microsoft MCE application, but is unknown whether it is essential. MC seems to run OK without starting up during bootup. This file prevents the activation of the screen saver/monitor off functions while my notebook pc (HP dv9000 series) is docked to the HP xb3000 expansion base station. |
| S Miller | If you have MS wireless keyboard and mouse, you will have conflicts with ehtray re: your screensaver. De-activate ehtray and your screensaver problems will disappear. |
| TCampbell76 | ehtray.exe basically keeps your computer in a constant non-idle state so that Media Center functions like watching TV does not get interrupted when your idle watching it. That is why screensavers and energy saving monitor modes do not activate. MS needs to set it up so that ehtray only turns on when Media Center is on. |
| Noel Tulley | When connecting cell phone as modem the phone's port cannot be opened (regardless of which port it is on). Removing ehtray.exe stopped the problem. I found this by trial and error using msconfig. |
| Matt | Whenever ehtray is enabled under msconfig/startup there is a soft but high piched frequency noise that occours. If it's disabled and the computer is restarted, the noise does not occur until you activate Windows Media Center. |
| A.Bathos | I had a "AGOBOT-KU" described shown in Spybot... I had Spybot remove it. It didn't show anywhere else. My Vista shows the ehtray in " Run-" and not "Run" . |
| Rick Schaeffer | It prevents screensaver/powersaver from running on my HP m7674n media center pc. I have wireless keyboard and mouse (which is apparently part of the problem). If I use msconfig to turn it off, screensaver/powersaver work fine. |
| Oliver Heinrich | part of MCE 2005, allowing use of micosoft remote control to control media processes. all processes i've seen on my computer starting with "eh..." belong to Media Center Edition of XP Pro |
 geekoftheweek | makes my external hard drive run excessively |
 Media Centre Maniac | Its Windows XP media centre (Enabels you to watch TV) and Windows Vista (Enables you to watch TV) |
| | Once I disabled it my screensaver and monitor worked properly with this on my monitor would not wake up |
| | ehtray allows access to ms messenger from within media center, it (and ms messenger) are not required unless you want to be able to use ms messenger. |
| Alagarath | ehtray.exe displays the green bar volume indicators on a windows media center system |
| Nathan gray | According to microsoft it is not an essentual software to run...not that I trust microsoft |
| RK | Can be problem when it is coming up errors. Disabling from the startup should fix the problem |
| | When i disable it on my vista the sleep mode start to run fine again. |
| Rich Musick | this file was located in c/windows/ehome folder, which is a app installed to allow playing demos and buying downloading games |
| Geoff | It's exactly like Oliver described. Completely safe |
| WC | When startup, sometimes the spybot s&d will ask for allow change for ehtray.exe, everytime this thing appear, my connection is unable to access, i have to restart my system to get my connection back |
| Greg C | if you disable it in the start up program of msconfig, your screensave will come back to life |
| Shane | Doesn't harm my computer before or after killing the process. |
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