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launchu3.exe

U3 Smart drive Software

Brief description of process

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.

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launchu3.exe

Reported as Virus

No

Reported as Trojan Horse

No

Reported as Spyware, Adware

No

Developer

U3

Part of

U3 smart drive

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