Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks come pre-installed with an application, with a file extension of actray.exe that allows the machine to connect to the Internet. The process displays as ThinkVantage Access Connections. The application shows the users the network connections that are available, and allows them to choose what Internet connection to use. The default path of the file is C:\Program Files\ThinkPad\ConnectUtilities\actray.exe. Known file size is 409,600 bytes. This is run as a background process and starts when Windows is launched. The file is not considered as a risk to the computer’s security. It has not been connected with any form of virus, spyware, or malware. It has also not been connected with backdoor malicious files like Trojan. What the application does is to store network locations and their profiles, and displays these when available. But the application is not just used for Internet connections. The application also stores settings for network sharing of files and printers.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. actray.exe. is used by Lenovo Access Connections, If you shut down actray.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop actray.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Lenovo Access Connections, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed actray.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Lenovo Access Connections, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if actray.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that actray.exe, belongs to, in this case Lenovo Access Connections