Anyone know what CompatTelRunner.exe is/does?

Anonymous
2015-07-17T13:46:56+00:00

Wondering what CompatTelRunner.exe is doing on my computer?

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Anonymous
2016-10-10T10:18:04+00:00

"I disagree. I think you should get Windows 10 now"

I agree with Nekked Runner .

Not a good response as I too had the same basic question;

  1. I have a fresh install of WIn7 and running Comodo CIS Anti-Virus that detected this application.
  2. My question too was what does CompatTelRunner do?
  3. My concern is if this is an absolutlety necessary thing or can I shut it down or worse is an infected file?
  4. After repeated questioning it was finally admitted that it is a program that while desireable for those interested in upgrading would not be needed by some people as myself.
  5. From what I gather reading between lines of the respondant is that it is neither necessary nor will there be any negative impact to me by not allowing to to run except that maybe my computer and OS run better without it using resources.

So my solution was to tell Comodo CIS to just block and terminate this application every time it attempts to run. 

I did not have time yet to go though checking the services running to see if it can just be disabled there or if I need to search the registry manually but before going that far I think I may let Revo Unistaller have a go at it.

Hope this helps you

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you're part of the problem.

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Anonymous
2015-08-12T19:03:09+00:00

That is the compatibility update for win 7 RTM.  Care to tell us more about the problem?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2977759

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-11-17T15:51:24+00:00

    I have Win 10.  I installed in July 2015 and updated it 3 times since.  (Twice because it quit operating properly.)

    Just NOW--never before--CompatTelRunner.exe started reading massive amounts of my disk and slowing down my whole computer.

    Obviously it is not just a Win 7 program.

    What is it doing?

    Why it is doing that?

    Does it need to do that?

    Why does Microsoft have renegade components to Windows like this that unnecessarily eat up processor time?

    How do I stop it or get rid of it??

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-16T14:44:27+00:00

    Has there been an official reply or fix for this? I assume that this causes my machine to run pretty slow everytime after boot.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-11-10T18:49:02+00:00

    Please see these two screenshots differing just 1 sec in time - CompatTelRunner.exe is running 5 times generating very quickly a big number of page faults

    this is on a Windows 10 machine upgrade from Win8 long time ago and having all updates installed and Windows Defender offline scan run recently with no findings

    note PID 12800's increase in Page Faults (in just 1 sec!)

    obviously something fishy is happening here making Windows 10 not perform at all. Killing those processes made the laptop run again fine and not have its fan and disk moan

    note that this machine is participating at Windows Insider Program

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