Process name: Microsoft Tablet PC Platform Component
Product: Windows
Company: Microsoft
File: wisptis.exe
Security Rating: 1
wisptis.exe is a pen input device tool for the Microsoft Tablet PC Platform. It means "Windows Ink Services Platform Tablet Input Subsystem". wisptis.exe get installed on your system, when installing Microsoft Office 2003, an Adobe product, or Journal Viewer via Windows Update. You cannot get rid of wisptis.exe by renaming or deleting it: Windows File Protection would cause it to reinstall the next time you run Adobe Acrobat, or Office 2003. If you don't have a Tablet PC and don't want an unnecessary process eating up the memory resources, you can uninstall Windows Journal from the add/remove programs in the control panel. Alternatively you could go to Regional Settings > Language > Details and remove the Advanced Text Services.
Get more detailed information about wisptis.exe and all other running background processes with Security Task Manager.
Note: Any malware can be named anything - so you should check where the files of the running processes are located on your disk. If a "non-Microsoft" .exe file is located in the C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32 folder, then there is a high risk for a virus, spyware, trojan or worm infection!
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