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Should I remove Tixati?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
10% remove it90% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Good
What do people think about it?
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How common is it?
Global Rank #2,296
United States Rank #2,206
Reach 0.2775%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 8.90 days
262.60 days >
Average installed length: 137.98 days

Tixati

What is Tixati?  (from Tixati Software)

Tixati is a free and easy to use BitTorrent client featuring detailed views of all seed, peer, and file transfer properties. Also included are powerful bandwidth charting and throttling capabilities, and a full DHT implementation.

Overview

Tixati is a software program developed by Tixati Software. It adds registry entry for the current user which will allow the program to automatically start each time it is rebooted. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The software is designed to connect to the Internet and adds a Windows Firewall exception in order to do so without being interfered with. The primary executable is named tixati.exe. The setup package generally installs about 5 files and is usually about 18.22 MB (19,103,850 bytes). Relative to the overall usage of users who have this installed on their PCs, most are running Windows 10 and Windows 7 (SP1). While about 51% of users of Tixati come from the United States, it is also popular in United Kingdom and Canada.

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.tixati.com
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\tixati
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\tixati\uninstall.exe?
Estimated size: 18.22 MB

Program filesFiles installed by Tixati

Program executable:tixati.exe
Name:Tixati
Path:C:\Program Files\tixati\tixati.exe
MD5:75ecadf31919ac05555468d5b57d9970
Additional files:
  • uninstall.exe

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

Scheduled Task
  • tixati.exe is scheduled as a task named 'dfgdfg' (runs daily at 1:18 AM).
Scheduled Task (Boot/Login)
  • tixati.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Tixati.
Startup File (User Run)
  • tixati.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'tixati' and executes as "C:\Program Files\tixati\tixati.exe" -starthiddenintray -d2.
Windows Firewall Allowed Program
  • tixati.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\tixati\tixati.exe'.

Program resource utilizationResource utilization averages

tixati.exe
Memory:68.37 MB
21.09 MB average
Total CPU:0.0000447264%
0.031193% average
Kernel CPU:0.00004056%
0.016088% average
User CPU:0.00000416%
0.015104% average
CPU cycles/sec:63,431,869
8,062,084 average
Switches/sec:186
70 average
I/O reads/min:26.12 MB
435.61 KB average
I/O writes/min:608.7 KB
105.02 KB average

How do I remove Tixati?

You can uninstall Tixati from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program Tixati, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Tixati.

OS VERSIONS
Win 10 47%
Win 7 0%
 
WHEN IT STARTS
Auto-starting? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 10%
Keep it 90%

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 10 47.43%
Windows 7 47.19%
Windows XP 3.11%
Windows Vista 2.25%
Windows Server 2003 0.02%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 20.86%
Windows 7 Ultimate 15.94%
Windows 8.1 10.81%
Windows 10 Home 10.79%
Windows 7 Professional 8.48%
Windows 10 Pro 7.93%

Distribution by countryGeography

50.62% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 50.62%
  United Kingdom 6.50%
  Canada 4.73%
  Australia 3.52%
  Italy 3.20%
  Netherlands 2.26%
  India 2.12%
  Sweden 1.48%
  South Africa 1.45%
  France 1.20%
  Philippines 1.06%
  Germany 0.92%
  Belgium 0.91%
  Norway 0.86%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 23.66%
Dell 19.34%
Acer 16.48%
ASUS 13.61%
GIGABYTE 6.93%
Lenovo 6.65%
Toshiba 5.79%
Samsung 3.85%
Intel 1.53%
MSI 1.46%
Alienware 0.70%
Common models
ASUS All Series 10.71%
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... 6.04%
HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook ... 3.75%
HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... 3.30%
HP Pavilion 15 Notebook P... 2.66%
Dell Inspiron N5110 1.74%

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