Process name: Realtek Sound Manager or Avance Sound Manager or Avance Sound Effect Manager
Product: Realtek Sound Manager or Avance Sound Manager or Realtek HD Sound Manager or Avance Sound Effect Manager v or SOUNDMAN.EXE or soundman.exe" -service or ¤uµ{
Company: Realtek Semiconductor Corp (www.realtek.com.tw) or Avance Logic, Inc (www.avance.com)
File: soundman.exe

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1574 users ask for this file. 6 users didn't rate it ("don't know"). 40 users rated it as not dangerous. 1 user rated it as not so dangerous. 8 users rated it as neutral. 3 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 8 users rated it as dangerous.

All comments about soundman.exe: Win32.Pinfi Minion File gives acess to AC'97 Audio configuration/codecs(Realtek)  See also: Link guerilla Soundmanager der Realtek Soundkarten Shadowsnake Von einer Realtek Soundkarte QWP It gives option for sound configuration.. a cind of driver Arlas Driver for sound Config. No problems James Addyman Sound Codec Manager - Allows you to administer your sound settings  See also: Link Basiclife Realtek Sound Manager Cesar Its Realteck sound effects program, u can disable it if not used the tray icon mike1 I have a file which keeps popping up called soundmon.exe is this the same as soundman etcetc Nwt_lazaro Driver based on Realtek AC'97 Audio Chip - Not Dangerous Richard Creighton Part of Realtek package - sound effects/sound card config. Probably worth keeping driver realtek P.Glade Wenn die Karte mal eingestellt ist, dann kann man das deaktivieren. Verbraucht nur Speicher A website called LAFN (Los Angeles Free Network) has a, very long, list of registry startup programs. kathkath good SyndroM-666 Hmm "Wenn die Karte mal eingestellt ist, dann kann man das deaktivieren. Verbraucht nur Speicher" danke für den Tipp P.Glade - ich dachte man braucht das um sound zu haben :Þ Abelone I've deleted this registry in order to remove Sound Effect Manager from my PC, but it's still there, any ideas? squid Realtek Soundcard drive-not spyware Renron it's sounds like a super hero to me, but spider man is much better FatalError Soundkarte program von Realek/Programme de carte son integre Realtek/Program from Realtek integrated sound card. duelpersonalities Mike1 Soundmon.exe is a trojan virus treiber realtek soundkarte ( meist onboard ) sounds like this is related to the MOBO sound system sound effect manager Steve G Part of the Realtek AC97 setup damien realtek sound card executable file.. - Part of Realtek. It provides an icon in the system tray to give quick access to the sound card settings. Useless process - disable it. El Locote it's a sound manager with very cool effects while playing mp3's spazzy Manages RealTek sound codec. It's part of the driver!!! Absolutely safe. LW90210 RealTek OnBoard sound manager - found most commonly on mobo's with onboard sound (but only if the onboard sound is made by Realtek) jacksim Wenn die Karte mal eingestellt ist, dann kann man das deaktivieren. Verbraucht nur Speicher  See also: Link Realtek Sound Manager  See also: Link raj kumar it appears and have to be removed Virus jane doe definitely a virus  See also: Link could be an alias for worm "randon.av" CathyB soundman.exe could be a worm - the W32.Spybot.ANDM worm can copy itself as soundsman.exe ; check Symantecs website. Discovered 1/5/2007  See also: Link Matt soundman.exe as part of the Realtek AC97 setup is a P.O.S., it seems that sometimes you can remove it from the registry to prevent startup and still have working sound, while other times your left without any sound and the Windows options under sound are unusable while the sound device reports to be working properly, so, it's hit and miss, it's really sad that such worthless garbage is bundled so tightly with drivers. Steve Soundmanager kriss the only process all the time on my system, that is not digitally signed abp My system locked up with system resources all tied up with iexplorer.exe only thing was i had no ie windows open. When i terminated it in task manager, it imediately spawned another instance again consuming large resources. When i disabled my network card, the activity stopped. It was in the windows/system32 folder 3,072kb. It had added it's self to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software/microsoft/windows/run key. It was easy enough to remove it from the start up queue from the msconfig command, reboot, and disable the file. If i were creating a malacious software, i would name it something common Valter Stands for Audio Codec '97, is a standard audiocodec used by intel. Absolutely safe. If you know more about soundman.exe, share your knowledge and help other users. Security Rating:  --- don't know ---  1 (not dangerous)  2  3 (neutral)  4  5 (dangerous) What do you know about this file: Link for more details: Your Name:

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