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The process Media Center Tray Applet belongs to the software Microsoft® Windows® Operating System or ehtray.exe or Xtreme Sound PCI by Microsoft Corporation (www.microsoft.com).

Description: ehtray.exe is located in a subfolder of C:\Windows. Known file sizes on Windows XP are 64512 bytes (44% of all occurrence), 59392 bytes, 67584 bytes, 125440 bytes, 50176 bytes, 38924 bytes, 27648 bytes, 21504 bytes.
The file is a Windows system file. The program has no visible window. File ehtray.exe is a trustworthy file from Microsoft. The program is loaded during the Windows boot process (see Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run). Therefore the technical security rating is 12% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.

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External information from Paul Collins:

  • "ehTray": eHome Media Center PC related - what does it do and is it required?

Important: Some malware camouflage themselves as ehtray.exe, particularly if they are located in c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Thus check the ehtray.exe process on your pc whether it is pest. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. It is one of the Top Download Picks of 2005 of The Washington Post and PC World.

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Once I disabled it my screensaver and monitor worked properly with this on my monitor would not wake up
   
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Its Windows XP media centre (Enabels you to watch TV) and Windows Vista (Enables you to watch TV)
  Media Centre Maniac  
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makes my external hard drive run excessively
  geekoftheweek  
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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
  Oliver Heinrich  
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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.
  Rick Schaeffer  
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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" .
  A.Bathos  
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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.
  Matt  
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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.
  Noel Tulley  
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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.
  TCampbell76  
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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.
  S Miller  
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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.
  chinnman  
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With ehtray.exe running my screensaver will not activate.
  Weldon  
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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
  Kevin Day   (further information)
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Die Datei aktiviert die Funktion von der Media Center Fernbedienung oder des Remote Keyboards am IR Anschluss
  Martin Nowak  
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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
  Harry  
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etray.exe is microsoft product, however can be manipulated with spyware and malware
  chance  
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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
  JonDoe3k  
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When I disable this applet my screen-saver works fine.
  Jim Kelley  
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I have this running on my system with no screen-saver problems.
  Graham Hill  
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when this applet runs on startup my screensaver will not activate if set for more than one minute, don't know yet
  Al Hanke  

Summary: 1 user think ehtray.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. 3 users think it's probably harmless. 7 users think it's neither essential nor dangerous. 2 users suspect danger. 8 users doesn't grade ehtray.exe ("not sure about it").

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