launchu3 exe is process associated with U3 Smart Drive U3 is a company producing a proprietary method of auto-launching applications from specially formatted USB flash drives Flash drives adhering to the U3 specification are termed U3 smart drives U3 smart drives come…

launchu3.exe

U3 Smart drive Software

Brief description of process launchu3.exe

Process launchu3.exe named “U3 Smart drive Software” is an executable application of U3 smart drive software, produced by U3. This version of launchu3.exe seems to be safe. However some processes have more variants and one of them may be malicious. To be sure we recommend you to do a spyware and a virus scan.

launchu3.exe

Additional information about launchu3.exe

launchu3.exe is process associated with U3 Smart Drive. U3 is a company producing a proprietary method of auto-launching applications from specially formatted USB flash drives. Flash drives adhering to the U3 specification are termed "U3 smart drives". U3 smart drives come preinstalled with the U3 Launchpad, which looks similar to the Windows OS start menu and controls program installation. The method works with recent Microsoft Windows systems only. Applications which comply with U3 specifications are allowed to write files or registry information to the host computer, but they must remove this information when the flash drive is ejected. Customizations and settings are instead stored with the application on the flash drive.

Reported as a virus

No

Reported as a trojan horse

No

Reported as a spyware

No

Safe to end the process

Information isn't available

Safe to disable the process

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Safe to remove the process

Information isn't available

Developer

U3

Part of

U3 smart drive

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