What is Half-Life: Source?

Half-Life: Source is software application developed by Valve Corporation. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 50.72% of installations running this operating system. Half-Life: Source's installer is typically 64.00 MB in size and installs around 61 files.

Half-Life: Source is most popular in the United States with 67.63% of installations residing in this country.

Half-Life: Source adds 5 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: Source is known to create 4 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Services:

Unwise32.exe runs as a service named 'Browser System Enahncer' (671c50b0).

Firewall:

hl2.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Portal\hl2.exe'.
Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Gamerelated\steamXP\Steam.exe'.
Unwise32.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\UNWISE.EXE'.
SteamTmp.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

Steam.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{F379847F-E7EF-4084-9B2F-B87B28202FA4}' (runs on registration).
Unwise32.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{F71A9918-1861-4EFE-AE94-530BDDE46DD4}' (runs on registration).
SteamTmp.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{694711D6-27A0-4D68-8836-D5F25B163A59}' (runs on registration).
hl2.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{FEF1DB47-50B0-41ED-A857-75E55BF03409}' (runs on registration).
uninstall_steam.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{9E79EB22-2E1A-417B-A325-85F9C7D50680}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

Steam.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Steam 2.

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.steampowered.com

Support:

https://support.steampowered.com

Installation path:

C:\Program Files\steam\steamapps\cal35\half-life source

Uninstaller:

"C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/280

Size:

64.00 MB

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