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Wisptis.exe : How to kill one more Microsoft annoyance

yogi

Wisptis.exe : How to kill one more Microsoft annoyance

Masters of BG

Joined: 02-Jan-2004
Posts: 442
From: Chennai, India

(INSTRUCTIONS ALSO DOWNLOADABLE BELOW)

The first time after I had installed Microsoft Office 2003, I noticed that whenever I run Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0, a background process is started called wisptis.exe. Once wisptis.exe has been started, it won't stop unless you kill it or reboot your system.

In general, the ways in which wisptis.exe can get installed on your system:

installing Journal Viewer via Windows Update
installing Microsoft Office 2003
So what is wisptis.exe? A quote from TabletPCDeveloper.com:
Quote:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wisptis.exe (\Windows\System32) This executable runs as a system
service that provides pen-data collection for other components of the
SDK. When a component needs to interact with the pen (for example, to
collect ink or to detect gestures), this executable is spawned as a
service to communicate directly with the input device. On a Tablet PC,
Wisptis.exe interacts with the digitizer, whereas on a desktop it
interacts with the mouse as well. The executable’s name is an acronym
that references an outdated internal name for the team that developed it
(Windows Ink Services Platform Tablet Input Subsystem).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well I don't have a Tablet PC and I certainly don't want an unnecessary process eating up my memory resources.

You cannot get rid of wisptis.exe by renaming or deleting it: Windows File Protection would cause it to reinstall the next time you run Adobe Acrobat.

There is even a rumor about a bug in wisptis.exe itself whereby it keeps part of the current user registry hive locked, preventing updates and eventually resulting in a corruption of the registry hive (which as reported leads to a "Userenv event 1517" on logging off or shutting down).

Others reported GDI leaks and CPU hogging. I haven't noticed the latter but can confirm that at one point, the number of open GDI handles by wisptis.exe was above 1000, which is unacceptable.

So by and large it seems wisptis.exe can make a thorough nuisance of itself.

To uninstall wisptis and Microsoft's Tablet PC Components on your PC, you must delete the following registry entries:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{7F429620-16D1-471E-A81A-114992148034}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\wisptis.EXE
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{04A1E553-FE36-4FDE-865E-344194E69424}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{13DE4A42-8D21-4C8E-BF9C-8F69CB068FCA}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{242025BB-8546-48B6-B9B0-F4406C54ACFC}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{3336B8BF-45AF-429F-85CB-8C435FBF21E4}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{3EE60F5C-9BAD-4CD8-8E21-AD2D001D06EB}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{43B07326-AAE0-4B62-A83D-5FD768B7353C}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{43FB1553-AD74-4EE8-88E4-3E6DAAC915DB}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{524B13ED-2E57-40B8-B801-5FA35122EB5C}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{632A2D3D-86AF-411A-8654-7511B51B3D5F}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{65D00646-CDE3-4A88-9163-6769F0F1A97D}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6E4FCB12-510A-4D40-9304-1DA10AE9147C}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{786CDB70-1628-44A0-853C-5D340A499137}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{836FA1B6-1190-4005-B434-7ED921BE2026}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{8770D941-A63A-4671-A375-2855A18EBA73}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{8854F6A0-4683-4AE7-9191-752FE64612C3}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{937C1A34-151D-4610-9CA6-A8CC9BDB5D83}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9C1CC6E4-D7EB-4EEB-9091-15A7C8791ED9}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9DE85094-F71F-44F1-8471-15A2FA76FCF3}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9FD4E808-F6E6-4E65-98D3-AA39054C1255}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{A5558507-9B96-46BA-94ED-982E684A9A6B}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{A5B020FD-E04B-4E67-B65A-E7DEED25B2CF}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{AAC46A37-9229-4FC0-8CCE-4497569BF4D1}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{C52FF1FD-EB6C-42CF-9140-83DEFECA7E29}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D8BF32A2-05A5-44C3-B3AA-5E80AC7D2576}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DE815B00-9460-4F6E-9471-892ED2275EA5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E3D5D93C-1663-4A78-A1A7-22375DFEBAEE}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E5CA59F5-57C4-4DD8-9BD6-1DEEEDD27AF4}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E9A6AB1B-0C9C-44AC-966E-560C2771D1E8}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{EFB4A0CB-A01F-451C-B6B7-56F02F77D76F}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F0291081-E87C-4E07-97DA-A0A03761E586}

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Components\BCA32ECD550 E1F4488DBD2A1578ACF8B
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\7040110900063 D11C8EF10054038389C\WISPFiles
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\7040110900063 D11C8EF10054038389C\WISPHidden

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TpcCom.* (all of them)

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{194508A0-B8D1-473E-A9B6-851AAF726A6D}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{56D04F5D-964F-4DBF-8D23-B97989E53418}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{773F1B9A-35B9-4E95-83A0-A210F2DE3B37}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{7D868ACD-1A5D-4A47-A247-F39741353012}

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\1125549C421D34E4DBF1036F62580BE1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\652A08B235C6DFF4C8CD41B52DE68CA4
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\9B4B5940D4625D64C85532B8CDE3BF4D
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\D656DA4A9E277A34D90D5E6FFA34E827
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\7040110900063D11C8EF10054038389C\Featu res\WISPFiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\7040110900063D11C8EF10054038389C\Featu res\WISPHidden

Now you can also safely delete \Windows\System32\Wisptis.exe. Make sure the process is not running; otherwise kill it before deletion.

Fully tested on an up-to-date Windows XP SP1.

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[ Edited by yogi on 2004/12/21 2:17 ]

2004/1/27 13:17

ali_akbar

Re: Wisptis.exe : How to kill one more Microsoft annoyance

nOObie

Joined: 28-Feb-2004
Posts: 19
From: Hyd, India

cant this be stopped from Administrative Tools>Services?

2004/2/28 19:17

yogi

Re: Wisptis.exe : How to kill one more Microsoft annoyance

Masters of BG

Joined: 02-Jan-2004
Posts: 442
From: Chennai, India

As far as i have dug around i have not found that service in the Administrative tools. So i guess it cannot not be done. If you know how to do it kindly share it.

Yogi

2004/2/29 18:04

merp

Re: Wisptis.exe : How to kill one more Microsoft annoyance

Stranger

Joined: 17-Apr-2004
Posts: 2

I'm not meaning to pester, but I was wondering if you or somebody could make a *.reg file to remedy this situation for other people. I've already fixed it myself, (thanks to yogi), but I think some other people would be a bit too intimidated to do it themselves. I deleted my TpcCom entries and I'm not sure which ones were in there, so I can't make it myself.

Otherwise, great site and it's always good to see people that like to help other people that have such knowledge and experience.

Keep on doing what you're doing.

-merp

2004/4/17 10:54

yogi

Re: Wisptis.exe : How to kill one more Microsoft annoyance

Masters of BG

Joined: 02-Jan-2004
Posts: 442
From: Chennai, India

Hi Merp
Well here is the reg file. Just download it from the given url and double click it. for the confused dont worry everything willl be fine. For those of you who are wondering what the heck is there in it, right click it and click on the option "open with" notepad. Or rather open notepad and in the file option click open. Now in the file types option (found down) change it from .TXT files to all files. Now you browse to the folder where the .reg file is stored and click it and open. Voila you can see that it is just the same kays you saw in this thread but with a minus sign on the left after the square bracket ("["). Yup that tells delete this key.
Yogi

To download http://www.boredguru.com/modules/downloads/visit.php?lid=4

[ Edited by yogi on 2004/4/17 17:33 ]

2004/4/17 11:31

merp

Re: Wisptis.exe : How to kill one more Microsoft annoyance

Stranger

Joined: 17-Apr-2004
Posts: 2

Thank you very much! (The only thing I'd add to the zip, personally, would be a batchfile to delete WISPTIS.EXE or a text saying the location with the instructions on how to delete it.)

You should submit this information to other sites!

2004/4/19 20:42

yogi

Re: Wisptis.exe : How to kill one more Microsoft annoyance

Masters of BG

Joined: 02-Jan-2004
Posts: 442
From: Chennai, India

Hi Merp
Thanks for your encouraging remarks. But as far as submitting in other sites, i think it will be upto you users who can take the lead. Well if you find this particular information useful you can just link to this page from other sites.
Love and regards
Yogi

2004/4/19 20:53

jack1393

Re: Wisptis.exe : How to kill one more Microsoft annoyance

Stranger

Joined: 29-Apr-2004
Posts: 1

Found the following site that claims it has the fix for the wisptis.exe service. I have installed it but haven't checked to see if it's a cure. Check out
http://www.aswinnen.be/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=53

2004/4/29 17:53

yogi

Re: Wisptis.exe : How to kill one more Microsoft annoyance

Masters of BG

Joined: 02-Jan-2004
Posts: 442
From: Chennai, India

The file is right here in the download section. And all you need to do is remove a few reg keys. Its not that complicated.
You can go to the downloads section here.
http://www.boredguru.com/modules/downloads/visit.php?lid=4

[ Edited by yogi on 2004/4/30 1:36 ]

2004/4/29 19:31

sewbizzee

Re: Wisptis.exe : How to kill one more Microsoft annoyance

Stranger

Joined: 01-May-2004
Posts: 1

thanks for the download

[ Edited by sewbizzee on 2004/4/30 23:05 ]

2004/5/1 4:02

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