Many users of Windows 10 or Windows 7 They complain about the presence of a suspicious folder, with a strange name, which contains in it an executable with the nameMPSigStub.exe.
Normally this executable file bears a signature of Microsoft, and is used by the operating system Windows 10 to extract updates from the temporal folder. Temporary Windows Directory. After it does its operations and the update is completed, it is normal to be automatically deleted from the hard disk. It does not always happen that way, and the file remains in a folder on the system partition or on another partition of the hard disk.
MPSigStub.exebelongWindows Automatic Updates And it should not be a reason to worry if you find it on the hard disk, but we have to be careful, because behind apparent system files, malware, spyware or other virus programs can be hidden, which are not exactly intended. Recommended is to scan the system with a software antivirus or anti-malware, like thisMPSigStub.exeit is the file created by Microsoft.
Most of the time this file cannot be deleted By simply pressing the key Delete. The reason is easy to suspect. Being a system file, on the normal user we do not have the permissions that allow this.
How can we delete the mpsigstub.exe file and the folder containing it
It would not be recommended to do this, because the presence of this file may indicate that an automatic update is in progress, or that the previously made update has failed. If you still bother you the presence of mpsigstub.exe, the safest is to use the tool Disk Cleanup al Windows 10 and selectClean up system files.
Click-right on the Windows 10 system partition or the partition we find the file MPSigStub.exe, click “Properties”, click on the button “Disk Cleanup”
At the end of the cleaning process, the fileMPSigStub.exe will no longer be present on the hard disk.
