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Information about osa.exe file
File: osa.exe
Name: Microsoft Office XP component
Product: Microsoft Office XP
Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
Risk factor (Virus/Trojan/Spyware): 
"osa.exe" launches common MS Office components to help speed up the launch of Office programs.
Some users claim there's no difference with or without it but it isn't required anyway. It is not Required at Startup.
(Osa9.exe is the Office 2000 variant)
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User feedback
There were 328 user requests for that file.
8 users classify it as harmless.
3 users classify it as not so dangerous.
5 users classify it as neutral.
2 users classify it as little bit dangerous.
5 users classify it as dangerous and recommend to remove osa.exe.
3 users didn't classify it ("don't know").
| Rating | Opinion | From |
 | Office Startup Assistant
| Alex
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 | Microsoft Office Startup Assistant that is loaded at start-up and improves performance by handling automation, Office fonts, certain Office commands, and Outlook notification.
| micxz
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| it's next to useless
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| One wonders why Microsoft developed it
| Hunter
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 | One wonders no more. End task and rename/delete executable. :-P
| no more
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 | it causes cpu to run at 100%
| robm
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| Yes Why???? It's the more useless program of the history of computer science!
| Paolo
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| I was running the word 2002 Help- Detect and Repair command and a pgm I have that watches over the start-up menu advised me that OSA,exe is being added to the start menu.
| ****
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| it is a waste of RAM and CPU. disable it!
| one wonders...
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| What is being referred here is about the time,when you are closing any application.
| Nebie
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| It's worse than useless. Sometimes it's a resource hog, taking up all your cpu time at startup.
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| Buganfällig, hohe CPU Auslastung = 100%
| Benchmarker
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| It's the best to search whith properties and paths
| Sole_72
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| it runs with no problems
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| it delay the open of all office file however the file will be opened faster once I kill the service
| Eric
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| Causes CPU to peg at 100% with no visible gain. And no loss when you remove it from your startup folder.
| Bruce Johnson
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 | my ms word and excel sometime hang when opening - killing this process makes them work fine. other times it is okay. This is on windows 2000.
| brian
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