• Properties:

• System Process: Yes
• Background Process: Yes
• Application Process:No
• Common Path:
  C:\ Windows\ System32\ khooker.exe
• Uses Network:No
• Uses Internet:No

Description:

The file khooker.exe is a process for the SIS Compatible Super VGA Keyboard Daemon software by the Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation. The SIS Corporation is a global leader in developing a range of logic products that includes multimedia, core logic, embedded systems, and communications. The file khooker.exe allows diagnostics for a range of different graphic cards, and it is known to be installed by the SIS VGA card drivers in the system tray utility. It can be simply defined as a launcher for graphic-card-related programs.

The SIS Compatible Super VGA Keyboard Daemon software enables hotkey features of the supported keyboards by hooking into the processing chain of the keyboard keys. The process file khooker.exe is also linked to the keyhook.exe file that extends the normal capabilities of a keyboard to have multimedia qualities.

The term VGA that means video graphics array refers either to the analog computer display standard or the 640x480 resolution itself. There is also the Super VGA, a term describing a wide range of computer display standards. It normally refers to the resolution of 800 x 600 4-bit pixels or the 1024 x 768 8-bit pixels.

The process file khooker.exe may have been installed in you computer the day it was purchased or it may have been installed with hardware changes you have made. The function of the process file khooker.exe is to interrelate and provide functionality for your computer graphics card.

Recommendations:

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