What is Hoyle Card Games?

Hoyle Card Games is software application developed by Encore Software. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 57.64% of installations running this operating system. Hoyle Card Games's installer is typically 764.00 KB in size and installs around 138 files.

Hoyle Card Games is most popular in the United States with 86.32% of installations residing in this country.

Hoyle Card Games adds 4 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Hoyle Card Games is known to create 2 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:

uTorrent.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'.
WINZIP32.EXE is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\WinZip\WINZIP32.EXE'.

Scheduled tasks:

Hoyle Card Games.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{FCE98E03-4762-46CC-9412-2B788AA9F754}' (runs on registration).
Hoyle Puzzle Games.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{E64EAF43-09BD-40B5-89A8-C43A19622084}' (runs on registration).
uTorrent.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{C98A89B7-12EC-482E-852F-7E57933F77F3}' (runs on registration).
Hoyle Card Games Classic.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{AD298841-ABD2-44B1-B991-153336F9EE05}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Registry entries:

uTorrent.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'uTorrent' and executes as "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe" /MINIMIZED.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.encore.com

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\Program Files\Hoyle\Hoyle Card Games\

Uninstaller:

MsiExec.exe /X{05F6571A-5205-4C81-8160-683BDCC3B272}

Size:

764.00 KB

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