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usbtooltip.exe

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  • Properties:
  • System Process: No
  • Background Process: No
  • Application Process:Yes
  • Common Path:
    C:\ Program Files\ Pinnacle\ Shared Files\ Programs\ USBTip\ USBTip.exe
  • Uses Network:No
  • Uses Internet:No
Description:

The usbtooltip.exe process is the USB Tip for Pinnacle devices using USB connections. Since this process works with Pinnacle, its task involves working with digital video devices and applications. The usbtooltip.exe file is responsible for connecting Pinnacle-based hardware using the universal serial bus.

With the USB connection, Pinnacle devices are allowed to be connected using a standardized interface socket. This also makes the plugging and reading of files from that hardware device easier and faster. The usbtooltip.exe process acts as the device driver that determines and recognizes the plugged in Pinnacle hardware device. Though most platforms today support using USB-connected devices, Pinnacle hardware still needs special applications like the usbtooltip.exe process.

If there is no installed usbtooltip.exe file, the user of Pinnacle hardware, will never detect the hardware. There may be a USB icon shown on the taskbars tray but reading that device will never be efficient without the usbtooltip.exe process.

The usefulness of the usbtooltip.exe process, however, is not only contained in reading the Pinnacle USB-connected hardware. This application is also the hardwares access to the software world. For example, a Pinnacle digital video camcorder has to be edited using the Pinnacle video editor. But before that process, the video needs to be streamed if it was recorded on a DV tape. The streaming process will only be possible if the device is read by the computer system. And how will the software read that device? That is by connecting to the computer system using the USB port. Since Pinnacle hardware devices are not just simple USB flash disks, it needs special support from special applications like the usbtooltip.exe file.

Also, with the usbtooltip.exe process, Pinnacle hardware devices can be connected to the computer without rebooting the system.

Additional usbtooltip.exe Info:

Part of: Pinnacle USB Tip, Author URL: http://www.pinnaclesys.com/, File Created by: Pinnacle Systems GmbH

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