What is Kies?

Kies is software application developed by Samsung Electronics CO., LTD.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 69.86% of installations running this operating system. Kies's installer is typically 212.00 MB in size and installs around 100 files. The most common release is 1.4 with 57.53% of all installations currently using this version.

Kies is most popular in India with 26.32% of installations residing in this country.

Kies adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:

KiesAirMessage.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{A38960E9-75F4-4FA5-BBA8-346F0A2E6FF6}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

KiesAirMessage.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named KiesAirMessage.

Registry entries:

KiesTrayAgent.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'KiesTrayAgent' and executes as C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesTrayAgent.exe.
KiesAirMessage.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'KiesAirMessage' and executes as C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesAirMessage.exe -startup.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.samsung.com

Support:

–

Installation path:

C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\

Uninstaller:

"C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{D6CD26FD-CD7F-4C86-96A3-EEBFABE5FE47}\setup.exe" -runfromtemp -l0x0409 -removeonly

Size:

212.00 MB

Language: