What is The Lab?

The Lab is software application developed by Valve Corporation. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 95.42% of installations running this operating system. The Lab's installer is typically 14.00 MB in size and installs around 61 files.

The Lab is most popular in the United States with 75.55% of installations residing in this country.

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

Software Behaviors

Firewall:

Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.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 '{B6D81AEC-C691-4109-ACBA-39A635BBAF0E}' (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-1-5-21-3837917440-1771750534-681917250-1001.

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.valvesoftware.com

Support:

https://support.steampowered.com

Installation path:

C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\The Lab

Uninstaller:

"C:\Games\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/450390

Size:

14.00 MB

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