The file s3trayp.exe belongs to software Part of (version s3 Screen Toys) by S3 Graphics Co. The company S3 Graphics is a manufacturer of computer graphics games that include Savage 3D and Chrome series. It was acquired by the company HTC in 2011 and continues to produce graphics accelerators for home computers under the S3 chrome brand name. A graphics accelerator is a chipset that is attached to a video board to which a computer program can offload the sending and refreshing of images to the display monitor and the computation of special effects common to 2D and 3D images. Many personal computers are now sold with a graphics accelerator built in. The file s3trayp.exe is important for the functionality of the graphics accelerator that is installed in the computer. Deleting this file can affect the functionality of the video board, particularly when the system is used to play computer games or to process files that contain special effects and 2D/ 3D images.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. s3trayp.exe. is used by Part of (version S3 Screen Toys), If you shut down s3trayp.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop s3trayp.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Part of (version S3 Screen Toys), 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 s3trayp.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Part of (version S3 Screen Toys), 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 s3trayp.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 s3trayp.exe, belongs to, in this case Part of (version S3 Screen Toys)