What is Half-Life: Opposing Force?

Half-Life: Opposing Force is software application developed by Gearbox Software. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 55.96% of installations running this operating system. Half-Life: Opposing Force's installer is typically 20.00 MB in size and installs around 80 files.

Half-Life: Opposing Force is most popular in the United States with 67.27% of installations residing in this country.

Half-Life: Opposing Force 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, Half-Life: Opposing Force is known to create 5 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Half-Life: Opposing Force?

Half-Life: Opposing Force is an expansion pack developed by Gearbox Software for Valve Corporation's critically acclaimed science fiction first-person shooter video game, Half-Life. As an expansion, Opposing Force offers an immersive first-person shooting experience within the Half-Life universe.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:

hl.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life\hl.exe'.
Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe'.
hltv.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Niku\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Half-Life\hltv.exe'.
SteamTmp.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe'.
hlds.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Half-Life\hlds.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

Steam.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{35064B2B-D7EC-4CD0-8082-7FF0A045A53A}' (runs on registration).
hl.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{9B9E38FA-7DA3-426A-B7F1-26A18C16F531}' (runs on registration).
hlds.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{424AB74C-911C-4999-BEE9-8A91BA9EA944}' (runs on registration).
SteamTmp.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{0FA4F2B3-5879-4EB7-87D7-15A36952D352}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

Steam.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Steam_Reg_HKCURun_S-1-5-21-2281314566-875905907-535484519-1001.

Registry entries:

Steam.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Steam' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -silent.
SteamTmp.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Steam' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -silent.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.gearboxsoftware.com

Support:

https://support.steampowered.com

Installation path:

C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Half-Life

Uninstaller:

"C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/50

Size:

20.00 MB

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