What is conime.exe and what (if anything) should I do with it please?

It won't hurt to leave the registry entry that tries to start conime.exe. If the app is not there, then nothing will start. If the app shows up some day, then AVG Free should figure out if it is a clean app to run.

If you want to remove the registry entry, go ahead. If some update puts conime.exe back, then that same update should put the registry entry back.

You might want to use Process Explorer with settings to send info to Virus Total:
Process Explorer + VirusTotal (to check all processes with 50+ AV's)

You might also want to use Autoruns. However, do not make changes via Autoruns without checking with others in this forum first.

MadMudMob said:

Even more thanks .... that link seems to be exactly what I have. Looked in Task Scheduler and there is nothing there to do with it.

Looks as though I should "delete any registry entry that contained the word "conime" in regedit" perhaps but am more than happy to wait for further (hugely appreciated) advice.

If that is what I am to do is it as simple as typing regedit in the Search box in Start then right clicking any entry and selecting delete in the regedit results?

No. Please - never do that.

There are plenty of valid registry entries for conime.
But, HKLM - RUN is probably not one of them.
That entry under the RUN key is the only entry that you could safely remove for now.

You can use regedit, but there is no need. Since you already have CCleaner, just use that to remove* that RUN entry for conime.exe.

*CCleaner moves the entry to another location in the registry.
You can use CCleaner to put the entry back - if need be.

CCleaner > Tools > Startup
Double click on the row of interest.
That should disable that RUN entry.

If you ever want it back, double click on it again.


Here is one example of an entry that you would have found if you searched the registry for (and removed any occurrence of) conime.



That entry should be there for all Windows 7 installations. If you ever install something that needs conime, then the conime.exe file will be installed and Windows 7 can make use of it. I just don't see any reason for conime.exe to be starting every time that Windows 7 starts. XP and Vista might have needed that, but Windows 7 can start conime when it starts a command prompt window.