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gamechannel.exe

What is gamechannel.exe?


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Windows Process Description:

The gamechannel.exe process, commonly known as the Wild Tangent Game Channel, is a background application that is usually installed with Wild Tangent computer games. This process may also come pre-installed even with demo versions of Wild Tangent games.

The process gamechannel.exe has the primary task of automatically notifying the user of new available Wild Tangent games at the same time ensuring that the user will have quick access to these games. The user may configure the gamechannel.exe process in order that it will routinely download in the background all updated versions of the current Wild Tangent games present in the computer. Some Wild Tangent games include Atomic Pop, Blackhawk Striker, Blasterball Wild, Cannonballs, Dice Jam, Gem Master, Kublox, Men in Black II, Slyder, Space Rocks, Virtual Warfare, etc. The gamechannel.exe process may consume Internet bandwidth while working in the background.

Once installed, an icon representing the gamechannel.exe process appears in the system tray. The gamechannel.exe process by default stays resident during the PC's boot-up. However, if the user wishes to manually initiate this process instead, then he may simply remove this process' registry key at the system registry. In this case, the user must find the location of the folder containing the gamechannel.exe process and execute it from there. This is applicable if the user does not use the process frequently. Even in such cases though, it is advisable for the user not to totally disable the process gamechannel.exe so that it may be easily accessible when needed.

The gamechannel.exe process is usually located in a subdirectory of C:/Program Files named 'WildTangent'. Generally, it occupies 184784 bytes of file size on Windows XP. The process gamechannel.exe is not essential to the system. Nonetheless, recommendations allow that this process remain running in the computer especially since it does not pose any immediate security risk.

WildTangent Game Studios is an industry innovator that produces quality downloadable games in the market. It tries to offer quality features such as console-quality graphics, full screen immersion, and real-time responsiveness.

Author: WildTangent, Inc..

Author URL: www.wildtangent.com

Part Of: WildTangent GameChannel

Memory Usage: Low since it uses only about 500Kb of memory resources when running.

System Process: No

Application: Yes

Background Process: No

Uses Network: No

Uses Internet: Yes

Hardware Related: No

Common Path: C:\Program Files\WildTangent\Apps\gamechannel.exe

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