Samsung Kies

What is Samsung Kies?

Samsung Kies is software application developed by Samsung Electronics CO., LTD.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 59.55% of installations running this operating system. Samsung Kies's installer is typically 557.00 KB in size and installs around 206 files. The most common release is 2.5.3.13043_14 with 6.82% of all installations currently using this version.

Samsung Kies is most popular in the United States with 20.62% of installations residing in this country.

Samsung Kies adds 6 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Samsung Kies is known to create 4 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:: Kies.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\Kies.exe'.

KiesAgent.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesAgent.exe'.

KiesTrayAgent.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesTrayAgent.exe'.

KiesDriverInstaller.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesDriverInstaller.exe'.
Scheduled tasks:: KiesAgent.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{B1FD73C5-0911-4C81-B913-55E2BA9BEAE7}' (runs on registration).

Kies.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{755A239D-9628-40CD-9BF7-065E92775EBE}' (runs on registration).

KiesTrayAgent.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{75217F7B-1CD6-4A14-A5EF-B2F911383F78}' (runs on registration).

KiesSilentUpdateAgent.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{CA676C16-8190-488A-800F-E6CA49E542DF}' (runs on registration).

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

KiesDriverInstaller.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{FFD165C3-BCFE-4E13-B306-A6E6D1BF66CA}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:: KiesTrayAgent.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 3.

Kies.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 4.

KiesAirMessage.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named KiesAirMessage.
Registry entries:: Kies.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'KiesPreload' and executes as C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\Kies.exe /preload.

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/us/kies
Support:: –
Installation path:: C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\
Uninstaller:: "C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{758C8301-2696-4855-AF45-534B1200980A}\setup.exe" -runfromtemp -l0x0409 -removeonly
Size:: 557.00 KB
Language:: English

Samsung Kies Executable Details

Primary executable:: Kies.exe
Name:: Samsung Kies
Path:: C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\Kies.exe
MD5:: f5ed26ab8bdd951bfac8bbd0d68ba3e9
SHA-1:: –
SHA-256:: –

Files installed by Samsung Kies

File Type	Filename	MD5
DLL	gongsolutions.wpf.dragdrop.dll	b94a523b1f2d0d4ac25ea9ba9fac8f9e
DLL	msvcr90.dll	abe99bc983d2adcd6e0262635532319d
DLL	Microsoft.Synchronization.dll	ed9c222a9154eca95b399ebbb9cd1f28
DLL	msvcm90.dll	96e031a2ab9a4628e2713507e493ef65
DLL	msvcp90.dll	40922f91004df687facaf24659545588
DLL	bass.dll	4b1aad2f5286d96513e4abed09e7a793
DLL	bass_aac.dll	744effe37a9bbd3abc6953d3d270124e
DLL	adbwinapi.dll	03a2218eedd7896c7b74e7ca81eea032
DLL	microsoft.windowsapicodepack.dll	442102fa4239a2e4baa14161010a0c7d
DLL	microsoft.windowsapicodepack.shell.dll	a286f29cc51dd8344393d0c3ddbe77de

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Popularity

90% of users keep Samsung Kies installed

Overall Rating

Good

Known Versions (51)

2.6.4.17113.1: 0.24%
2.6.4.17103.1: 0.03%
2.6.4.16113.3: 0.77%
2.6.4.16084.2: 0.37%
2.6.4.16061.19: 0.47%
2.6.3.16041.12: 0.34%
2.6.3.16011.2: 0.76%
2.6.3.15075.2: 2.17%
2.6.3.15045.4: 1.60%
2.6.3.15024_5: 0.00%
2.6.3.15024.5: 1.64%
2.6.3.15013.18: 1.50%
2.6.3.14123.5: 1.02%
2.6.3.14074.11: 0.43%
2.6.3.14044_17: 4.09%
2.6.3.14044_16: 2.70%
2.6.3.14044_15: 0.29%
2.6.3.14044.14: 0.22%
2.6.2.14014_7: 5.69%
2.6.2.14014_6: 3.11%
2.6.2.14014_5: 0.53%
2.6.2.14014_4: 0.10%
2.6.1.13105_7: 4.84%
2.6.1.13105_6: 3.29%
2.6.1.13105_5: 0.69%
2.6.0.13091_9: 4.60%
2.6.0.13074_14: 0.67%
2.6.0.13064_2: 5.08%
2.5.3.13052_10: 4.88%
2.5.3.13043_7: 0.00%
2.5.3.13043_14: 6.82%
2.5.3.13043_13: 0.16%
2.5.3.13034_9: 0.29%
2.5.3.13033_7: 0.24%
2.5.2.13021_13: 0.03%
2.5.2.13021_12: 0.01%
2.5.2.13021_11: 2.66%
2.5.2.13021_10: 6.76%
2.5.1.12123_2: 5.57%
2.5.0.12114_1: 1.54%
2.5.0.12104_15: 1.81%
2.5.0.12094_28: 2.33%
2.5.0.12094_27: 0.62%
2.3.3.12085_7: 2.35%
2.3.2.12074_13: 1.34%
2.3.2.12064_9: 0.93%
2.3.2.12064_10: 1.08%
2.3.2.12054_20: 1.06%
2.3.2.12054_19: 0.45%
2.3.2.12054_18: 0.32%
2.3.1.12044_18: 0.54%

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