The gui.exe process is a file that belongs to SearchNugget, an advertising program. The gui.exe process is reported to be capable of monitoring the user’s browsing habits, and sends the activity data to the servers to be analyzed. Through advertising pop-ups, the users get prompted for information. Such processes put the security at risk, therefore users are advised to remove gui.exe from the system. The gui.exe has been reported to be associated with the following program: File name: Adware.W32.Shorty.Gopher; Application used: Adware.W32.Shorty.Gopher; Recommendation: Disable and remove the gui.exe file immediately. The process is possibly a spyware. On the contrary, the gui.exe file has been currently checked and pronounced SAFE by several antivirus products on the following dates: 2012-SEP-06 Avast! Antivirus; 2012-SEP-06 Comodo Antivirus; 2012-SEP-05 Microsoft Security Essentials; 2012-SEP-04 Norton 360; 2012-SEP-04 Kaspersky Internet Security; 2012-SEP-04 AVG Internet Security 2012; 2012-SEP-04 ESET NOD32 Antivirus 5.0; 2012-SEP-03 Norton Internet Security; 2012-SEP-01 AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012; and 2012-AUG-31 McAfee Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware. Private users’ comments on the gui.exe process include: "It is Gigabyte EasyTuner6"; and "Gui.exe is a utility of Gigabyte Mother Boards tweaking utility".

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as SearchNugget, 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 gui.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 gui.exe, belongs to, in this case SearchNugget