Information about cthelper.exe file

It provides an interface for 3rd party programms to the drivers of creative soundcards.

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Rating Opinion From should be some stuff the soundblaster needs die leute die diese software geschrieben haben sollten mal angaben machen slagger Background task that works as a plug-in manager for Creative drivers. It helps the third party manufacturers to produce drivers, add-on features, and fixes that will integrate with a tighter fit with Creative sound drivers and utilities. Ebula Background task that works as a plug-in manager for Creative drivers. Sema4 It hogs all of the CPU. Search to see if its in a windows system folder. Ebula came up on my firewall As it appears it is harmless, I have a seen a bug that uses this name with all cap letters running from the root directory. Normally this file allows for the third party effects and sound distribution over the creative labs soundblaster 24 bit sound systems. If you do not play games or record your own digital music. You should be able to kill this process without effecting your performance. Magus Used by creative sound card Alex it is only a waste of resoures zeek it was using 99% of my CPU jason is this thing supposed to be taking up 99% of my cpu useage? :/ deus The only harm it has caused for me is somehow managing to use about 90% of my processors time. not sure if it causes problems but takes up the entirety of my cpu capacity davegb10 it's annoying Not normally dangerous, but sometimes can have a bad memory leak Matt This file doesn't listen on any ports... so its not dangerous... It also doesn't appear to send out information. Mike Denzil uses a hole friggen lot of memory amoo3 uses a hole friggen lot of cpu i ment sry amoo3 background process that hogs all the resources Keith Useful for sound card driver developement. Eats processing power though. No ill effects from ending process from the task manager if you want the cpu power back Mike soll von creativ produkten kommen hab diese anwendung auch und hab auch ne creativ sound karte. Juun Makes shutting down my OS realy hard (98 SE) - By always needs to endtask it Hoggy Its for the soundcard. SB-Live Creative Technology Ltd. filverion 1.0.0.1 René M. Chews CPU time KoW Capital letters. Can't kill the process. Use 1% of cpu P Yes it is part of Creative Snd Blaster; should only take up 0-1%of CPU usage(otherwise u have other issues); not essential unless u' use 5.1+ sound in advance gaming or media Yjrampage For some strange reason one of my development softwares (Windev) won't run while this file is memory. Nor will the setup files run for reinstall. Other than that, no ill effects. Responds fine to end task. Ben This file is a real pain as it is always hogging memory up to 98% of available resources, seems to be particularly bad after running demo versions of new games software, ie : MOHPA MP demo. Dave T the size of mine is 292k in memory and is using no cpu blopnuts It encounters an error in the start and my speakers don't work! I'm mad. Jerad blockierte onlinebanking lila Hersteller Creative Technology Ltd, wird für die Soundkarte SB-Live benötigt Sigi G Part of my sound card, but is it necessary? Rob Gehört zur Creative Soundblaster Soundkarten Protheus Seems like it loads with a registry entry about WinDVD - doesnt sound good to me as it looks like Spyware Buck cthelper.exe is present on the installation Audigy 2ZS CD-ROM from Creative and the file is present in 3 directories when installed C:\windows\system C:\Program files\Creative\SBAudigy2ZS\Program\VxD\common and C:\Program files\Creative\SBAudigy2ZS\Program\WDM\common and is connected to CtSpkHlp.dll What it does I have no idea but certainly is not dangerous or Creative wouldn't put it on their installation disk. Andy Jones Popup blocked (http://a.tribalfusion.com - eBay - Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Comcast) It helps with Sound Related Problems. Game Patches or Add-On's for Music Software might rely on this. But as far as i know (wich is probably not very far), nobody ever used this stuff. Chistian Voigt cthelper.exe is installed with Creative Labs Soundblaster Devices. It's purpose is to aid 3rd party developers create plugins/software for the card. In this way it is a non-essential system process and can be removed from the task-bar/startup (run - msconfig). If you play games I would keep it enabled, pherhaps lower its priority. Michiel NL Eating up between 70%-99% of my cpu, but i never noticed it before now after I was playing around with the sound settings. Chris its for creative sound cards mo Creative Soundblaster App. part of drivers for creative soundblaster There is spyware out there using this filename Jeff Hughes Mine crashes during startup (illegal memory access) Andre Sometimes hangs my system on startup (Approx 1 in 3 boots). My system W98-SE will often not shut down until I use the three fingered salute and kill this process John Cookson Ptach für WinDVD von creative, aber NERVIG TRex2003 mine runs from system32 dir if it crashes it uses 99% cpu its a noise reduction app used by creative get an update driver soundcard crap not a threat this file deletes my bootup files and uses all my RAM memory. If i shut it down it will return the next time I start the pc. location C:/winnt/system32/cthelper.exe but i can't find it at that location. arjen XP firewall Blocked it, I'n not that up with th XP firewall, but wondering why it wants to block it, I have le3ft it blocked for now Charlieuk very dangerous my virus program is calling this file a trojan  link for more info Tommy Creative-Soundkarte (Zusammenarbeit mit Programmen von Drittanbietern)  link for more info SirMichi Used by Creative Audigy. Has no adverse recording or listening effects when removed. mouse209 I tried to install Creative Drivers for my PCMCIA and Trend said I had the Worm Sdbot.Aul and said it clean it, at Trend on the internet it said it downloads, CTHelper.exe  link for more info Steven Ist in Ordner System32 unter Windows, braucht bei mir 1,2Mb. Jonnie CT Helper is in fact a tool to Enable Soundblaster Live and Audigy Cards to make use of the surround functions of WinDVD (a DVD Player Software from Intervideo). If you enable 4 Speaker mode in Creative Surround Mixer, you wont be able to use 4 Speaker Surround Mode in WinDVD unless you're running CTHelper.exe. If you dont need surround, you can disable it in the registry. Bjoern takes up 99 percent of cpu Scott If you know more about cthelper.exe, share your knowledge and help other users. Your opinion:  --- 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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