What is WINUTIL5.DLL?

WINUTIL5.DLL is part of WINUTIL5 and developed by Capital Intellect Inc according to the WINUTIL5.DLL version information.

WINUTIL5.DLL's description is "WINUTL5"

WINUTIL5.DLL is usually located in the 'c:\WINDOWS\system32\' folder.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on WINUTIL5.DLL:

PropertyValue
Product nameWINUTIL5
Company nameCapital Intellect Inc
File descriptionWINUTL5
Internal nameWINUTIL5
Original filenameWINUTIL5.dll
Legal copyrightCopyright (c) 2002-2006. Capital Intellect Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Legal trademarkCopyright (c) 2002-2006. Capital Intellect Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Product version2006.05.0023
File version2006.05.0023

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameWINUTIL5
Company nameCapital Intellect Inc
File descriptionWINUTL5
Internal nameWINUTIL5
Original filenameWINUTIL5.dll
Legal copyrightCopyright (c) 2002-2006. Capital Int..
Legal trademarkCopyright (c) 2002-2006. Capital Int..
Product version2006.05.0023
File version2006.05.0023

Digital signatures [?]

WINUTIL5.DLL is not signed.

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD52c2d8877be92b452a82a541d06f6d3eb
SHA2562132498e48944681fb82475d9a5b76219b734996773b248baf995435febf22e1

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What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with WINUTIL5.DLL. 77% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 189 users.

User vote results: There were 146 votes to remove and 43 votes to keep

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Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.

BENEDITO SANTIAGO writes

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Ao clicar para sair de uma página no Internet Exlorer, aparece uma mensagen (winutil5.dll) e automaticamente reinicia a página. o que devo fazer para eliminar isso?

# 10 Aug 2009, 7:44

Jean Brustad writes

2 thumbs

hae no idea how this got on my compter, ad I canot get rid of it I do not even know what this for.Please lete hear from you

# 4 Feb 2010, 17:54

Roger Karlsson writes

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@Jean: Please upload the WINUTIL5.DLL file to the viruscanners at virustotal.com. It should give you information whether WINUTIL5.DLL is legit or malware. Please let us know what the scan said.

# 4 Feb 2010, 23:47

Lonnie Beall writes

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My Computer is driving me crazy with this problem. Internet Explorer will not shut down. It keeps talking about this Winutil5.dll file. Please help. Thanks.

# 14 Feb 2010, 8:14

Roger Karlsson writes

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@Lonnie: Do you get an error message that mention the Winutil5.dll file? What does the message say?

I think Winutil5.dll belongs to a program called "PC Confidential". Uninstalling that program might stop the error messages.

Did this solve the Winutil5.dll problem?

# 19 Feb 2010, 9:44

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