Un.exe

Open Task Manager ( Ctrl + Shift + Esc ), find un.exe , right-click, and select End Task . Do this before deleting the file.

Within seconds, the folder was filled with hundreds of them. His fan began to whir, a mechanical scream as the CPU hit 100% load. Elias reached for the power button, but his mouse cursor began to move on its own. It didn't go for the Start menu. It went for the . un.exe

Some legacy enterprise software installers from the early 2000s used abbreviated names for their "Uninstall" routines. In extremely rare cases, un.exe is a harmless script that calls the main uninstaller. You can verify this by checking the file location (see below). Open Task Manager ( Ctrl + Shift + Esc ), find un