As you do sometimes when you decide to look around your machine and possibly scare yourself I wondered what RUXIM.EXE was in my Program Files (Win 10) So I followed the trail and found it was Microsoft helping me in my life with security and updates I landed on this page and did a search for it. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/w...indows-diagnostic-data-events-and-fields-2004 There is a LOT of info on that page telling you what everything to do with updates and diagnostics is and does. If you decide to read it you will need coffee. Note on right hand side at the top of the page. Events Microsoft Build May 21, 4 PM - May 24, 3 AM AI has disrupted the industry. Join us as we disrupt it some more. Register now
for me its named "RUXIMICS.exe" und "RUXIMIH.exe", not "RUXIM.exe" i noticed it a while ago, my left alone LTSC do not have it. same explanation here https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...w10-21h1/865c5df7-8a18-4478-bfc4-767c12aee33c the symbol itself looks similar when a restart after update is required. currently it did not bother me so i left it alone. to add, autoruns did not found any service, but a task "PLUGscheduler", path: "\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\RUXIM" it has 4 triggers. get a try and disable the task, see whats happening, or not when searching for updates.
For me that log folder contains many entries which first started on the 29th March. They are ETL (event trace log files)
Why you guys so worried about a harmless Windows file? If your going to be paranoid there's probably another 10,000 or so you can fret about.
Don't mistake curiosity for paranoia. Just questioning why it's only turned up in the last month or so, also it would be interesting to know what triggers it.
I wasn't, but your the one who said you scared yourself. I probably should have used a different word than paranoid.
The comment ''possibly scare yourself'' was not meant to be taken literally Do you have any instances of Ruxim?
as written ruxim runs on different task events - and then quits if work is done. i have doubt you will see it if not using tools like process monitor from sysint. the disabled task here like to run next tommorrow, last run was 02-04 when i disabled it. i dont see evidence whats performed, windows update maintenance for what beside windows update itself? windows update is a service, ruxim is "only" a task.
Came upon this thread because I got a popup caused by ruxim. Just registered today to share my findings. Although I feel like since I'm a new user without any reputation the links will get automatically removed. If that is the case I can try to upload the images directly to the forum. This imgur post is something I personally experienced. https://imgur.com/a/YqUUxiM This reddit post is something I found while looking online. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/17tbdv7/ruximihexe_purpose_besides_adware/
I actually have a couple of hundred of these showing in my Win 10 Event Viewer logs error list. Session "Microsoft.Windows.WindowsUpdate.RUXIMLog" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035
if the reliablity graph shows nothing important, then let it go. this routine observes several other processes, eg: {b675ec37-bdb6-4648-bc92-f3fdc74d3ca2} and throw an error if it cannot handle it. SFC and DISM wont help you out. if you experience no other real issues then forget it. for me, in fact i never look into event viewer or other windows surveys until i register a failure. waste of time.
