• Properties:

• System Process: Yes
• Background Process: Yes
• Application Process:Yes
• Common Path:
  C:\ Program Files\ SMS\ launch32.exe
• Uses Network:Yes
• Uses Internet:No

Description:

The launch32.exe file is a Systems Management Services client component launcher, which provides remote deployment of application and security, installs. Systems Management Services, or SMS, utilizes the launch32.exe process to provide remote control, patch management, software distribution, and hardware and software inventory.

The EXE was introduced to provide a solution for times when a laptop might connect without prompt or permission to a network from different various locations. The launch32.exe file enables a network client to limit the frequency of download content from the same place within the enterprise.

When the SMS is within another location, it may resort to a local distribution point to run or download the launch32.exe process. That may, for a WAN, conserve bandwidth. The Systems Management Server verifies if the user is online to the Computer via performing a scan to determine whether the EXE is running or not. If SMS finds the file launch32.exe then SMS determines that the user is logged on.

The program user utilizes the process counters in Performance Monitor to determine if the launch32.exe file had started. If the EXE launch32.exe counter is not available in or is disabled from the Performance Monitor, the SMS client cannot determine if a user is logged on. Identifying whether a user is online or not is important. It is because advertisements which specify that programs can correctly run only in the condition that none of the users are online, is unpredictable and may damage the system of an SMS client.

Some times, several particular advertisements for offline programs are readily available to a client. If the first of these advertisements runs correctly while in a state of being logged off, all the other following advertisements are wrongly run when the user logs back on as the first program is running. The Advertised Programs Manager ensures that launch32.exe process is operating to check if the user is offline or online. If it is not running, one of the several requirements to start an offline program advertisement is present.

Recommendations:

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