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What is itype.exe?

Part of Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center by Microsoft

What is it?

Microsoft IntelliPoint is the Microsoft brand software driver for Microsoft's mice. It has been succeeded by Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center, which combines IntelliType with IntelliPoint. Depending on the software version and specific mouse product, users can define mouse buttons to run any executable program or file they desire and can even define buttons for different functions in chosen programs. IntelliPoint supports all known Microsoft mice, as well as generic 3/5-button mice.

Description of itype.exe from Microsoft

“IntelliPoint includes support for the Microsoft Explorer Touch Mouse and an application to practice using the Microsoft Touch Mouse. With IntelliPoint, setup automatically detects your mouse model. If you have more than one mouse attached to your computer, each mouse model can have different button assignments. The scrolling experience for mice with smooth scroll wheels has been improved in many applications. PS/2 devices are no longer supported in IntelliPoint.”

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How does itype.exe run?

Process - itype.exe is an instance of a running program. This 64-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account. itype.exe is executed by the process taskeng.exe (Task Scheduler Engine by Microsoft).

How does itype.exe start?

Startup files (all users) run - itype.exe is registered with the run identifier 'IntelliType Pro' and the execution command '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Device Center\itype.exe"' in the Windows registry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Run keys are startup registry keys that are used to launch an application automatically when any Windows user logs into Windows.

Scheduled task - itype.exe is launched automatically by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\Microsoft_Hardware_Launch_itype_exe'. Task Scheduler provides the ability to schedule the launch of programs or scripts at pre-defined times or after specified time intervals or even with event-based triggers.

Scheduled tasks startup - itype.exe is launched automatically when a user logs into Windows by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\Microsoft_MKC_Logon_Task_itype.exe'. With Scheduled Tasks, any script, program, or document can be configured to run when a user logs into the PC. These tasks start every time that Windows is booted and runs in the background.

Community

What is the community is seeing?	What is the community is doing?
About 0.3% of all Boost users have the itype.exe process running.	Of the 0.3% of itype.exe users, 35.0% have disabled it.

How resource intensive is itype.exe?

Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.

0.00186% CPU18619.6%

Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.

6.81 MB RAM31.6%

Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.

1 /min0.0%

Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.

18 GDI objects12.0%

Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.

2 context switches/sec2.0%

Average context switches for all programs is 100 per second.

Typical file (disk image) location:

C:\Program Files\microsoft device center\itype.exe

Are there other versions of Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard C...?

itype.exe - version 7.10.344.0

itype.exe - version 7.00.260.0

itype.exe - version 2.2.173.0 (this)

itype.exe - version 2.1.177.0

itype.exe - version 2.0.162.0

itype.exe - version 2.0.161.0

itype.exe - version 1.1.500.0