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
    2016-01-27T18:17:02+00:00

    Yeah, cause its been out all of 10 minutes and you've given it a bloody good test already...   lol

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-21T06:54:48+00:00

    I take it all back.  I just found it running again and this time there were over a hundred of them running.  I found this link that pointed out what it was and what to do about it (answer #2 from annon): 

    http://superuser.com/questions/944067/windows-disk-i-o-100-at-boot-for-20-minutes

    Basically it's part of MS' Application Experience.  It's started from Task Scheduler and you can disable it.  The path in Task Scheduler in Windows 10 was:

    Task Scheduler Library / Microsoft / Windows /Application Experience

    I found three tasks in that category and I disabled two of them.  I disabled the ones labeled 'Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser' and 'ProgramDataUpdater'.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-15T17:50:25+00:00

    Not really.  I think an update made the CompatelTelRunner issue "go away".  I still have heavy hard-disk usage on startup, but they are now directly related Defender or Windows Update, and it's not as intrusive as before.

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