• Properties:

• System Process: No
• Background Process: Yes
• Application Process:Yes
• Common Path:
  [% C:\ Program Files\ Creative\ Aotray.exe %]
• Uses Network:No
• Uses Internet:No

Description:

The executable file aotray.exe is a main component of AOpen sound tray that generates the system tray icon of the AOpen sound card driver. Users should keep the process aotray.exe running on their computer if their computer has AOpen supported soundcards. The aotray.exe launches the driver of AOpen sound card by providing an accessible icon placed in the system tray. The aotray.exe or AOpen sound tray software is a computer process that usually runs automatically upon Windows startup.

The task of the process aotray.exe is to provide a system tray icon. In this process, the file aotray.exe allows users to access the AOpen sound card driver. By clicking the icon provided, the process aotray.exe will display a visible window of the application. This visible window implements the tasks and configurations for the AOpen sound card device connected to the computer.

The file aotray.exe or AOpen sound tray application is a user-initialized process which is required by the program AOpen sound tray application to operate normally. The aotray.exe process can be configured by the user through the system configuration utility. The Windows system configuration utility is a component of the Microsoft Windows operating system designed to monitor and display processes, registry entries and applications currently running in the Windows system. The user can also change the default registry entries of the Windows operating system, and changing the registry library enhances the boot-up time of the Windows operating system.

The executable file aotray.exe has low memory usage. While the aotray.exe process performs in launching the application AOpen sound tray, the process aotray.exe will consume 550Kb of RAM. The file aotray.exe takes less than a second to execute upon Windows startup.

The AOpen sound tray is compatible with NT-series operating systems, NT4 or 2000, which is actually NT5. The user can only use the card as a simple stereo unit. There's no support in the drivers for quad output or positional audio on anything but Windows 95/ 98.

Recommendations:

This is a safe process. There is no necessity to remove this process from your system or change it in any way.