I have Win 7 64 bit - runs fine, however several times a day I get a popup telling me that Windows doesn't know which program to use to open chkupd.
Well nor do I - I've never before heard of chkupd. Can anyone help please!
Neil
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2012-04-23 09:17What is chkupd?
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2012-04-23 11:29Neil,
I don't know the answer to your problem but it is a very bad idea to use your email address as your UserId. If I were you I'd change it immediately.
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2012-04-23 18:50Do you have Daemon tools installed. It includes chkupd.exe. If you have it installed and are not using it, uninstall it.
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2012-04-23 20:18I don't think this "chkupd" (no extension) is likely to be from DAEMON Tools (which uses chkupd.EXE).
I think this one may be from a Scheduled Task titled Trusted Software Update: chkupd with no file extension
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2012-04-23 22:31RetiredGeek - yeah, thank you! I just overlooked that.
jwitalka and Clint - no I don't have Daemon Tools, but thank you for responding.
BruceR - You did it! I have a file opener tool from Trusted Software, and removing it appears to have solved the problem.
Thanks everyone!
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2012-04-25 20:27Neil. please let me know which file opening tool and solve pop up Ckkupd problem and this file is under which folder. TQ Tan
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2012-04-26 00:03Hi Tan - the software is Free File Viewer (http://www.trustedsoftware.com/) and it was located in folder Program Files (x86) - Neil
