what is masetupcleaner.exe

I'm using windows 7x64, but had similar grief with this MASetupCleaner.exe. Damn thing (KIES) never managed to connect to my phone, just kept annoying me with messages about updates. So last week I uninistalled it, today when I booted up I get this masetupcleaner.exe message. Well I've never heard of "make any" software so I denied it.

Final solution ? Start regedit, search for masetupcleaner. Press delete. Then OK in the message box. Rinse and repeat as necessary. And ... it's gone :).

Just ran into this issue after uninstalling Samsung Kies and wanted to pass what I learned. 

I found that these files were installed by Samsung Kies and not cleaned up after uninstalling.  I ended up moving them into a temporary location.  All files below are in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64 directory.  

Libraries – DLL files:

cis-2.4.dll

issacapi_bs-23.dll

issacapi_pe-2.3.dll

issacapi_se-2.3.dll

MACXMLProto.dll

MaDRM.dll

MaJGUILib.dll

MAMACExtract.dll

MaXMLProto.dll

MK_Lyric.dll

MSCLib.dll

MSFLib.dll

MSLUR71.dll

MTTELECHIP.dll

MTXSYNCICON.dll

muzaf1.dll

muzapp.dll

muzwmts.dll

Audio Plugins - AX files:

3DAudio.ax

muzdecode.ax

muzmp4sp.ax

muzmpgsp.ax

muzoggsp.ax

Executables – EXE files:

MASetupCleaner.exe

muzapp.exe

My guess is that these files were left here because some of the DLLs are shared and other files are reference files for the shared DLLs.  After removing them, I have receive no popups or system errors.

Although Kies software is not the issue here - I've never seen such a **** software which makes one of the most popular telephone series almost impossible to use. Fortunately, there are other, actually working mobile phone management software out there. However, I got the masetupcleaner dialogue window after I uninstalled Kies... so uninstalling did not help.

I had also had enough with Samsung Kies as it took forever to update and never worked properly any way so I uninstalled it and then got the MAsetupcleaner.exe pop up which I respectfully declined.

Samsung Kies has to be very high on my list of rubbish software. Why do they allow MA to be bundled in with their software? Has anyone contacted Samsung on this?

I've also uninstalled Samsung Story Teller - whatever that was - just in case that was causing a problem.

Let's see what happens.

I also have had calls saying my computer was trying to access the Internet, but I blew the guys off (not very nicely either) as pranksters or hackers.  They identified themselves as Microsoft Support, but they had foreign accents and were not very believable.

Weird ! I desinstalled Kies a couple of days ago, and got the same scammers to call me too. I was stupid and did cut the conversation short, I should have kept them on the line to undertsand what they where trying to have me install (not doing it obviously)