What is a mim.exe file?

Question

On my laptop, whenever I shut down, I get a msg saying MIM.EXE is not responding! How can I fix this? It's a Dell Inspiron laptop, and it's only four months old.

Answer 1

mim.exe is belonging to the Musicmatch Jukebox software. Musicmatch Jukebox is a multimedia application supporting most known media formats. This is a non essential system process and, disabling or enabling this is down to user preference.

mim.exe is part of Musicmatch Jukebox. By default it automatically loads in the background when your computer boots up. Musicmatch currently does not provide a way to turn this off in the application preferences. It's likely the background application is not shutting down properly during your reboot operation, which is why you are seeing the error message. You have a few options to address the problem.

The first thing I recommend is turning off the automatic load on startup option. You can't do this from inside Musicmatch, so you need to do it using MSCONFIG, which is the built-in System Configuration Utility. From your Start menu, click Run and type msconfig. Click the Startup tab and scroll until you find something called mimboot. This is the application used to load mim.exe into your system memory on startup. Uncheck the box next to mimboot, click OK and reboot your system.



If you regularly use Musicmatch, this doesn't entirely solve your problem. When you close Musicmatch, mim.exe remains in memory to help Musicmatch launch quickly the next time you open the application. To make sure it doesn't hang your reboot, you may need to kill mim.exe from the Task Manager Processes tab prior to shutdown, which is a hack but should work. Launch Task Manager using Ctrl+Alt+Del, right-click mim.exe and choose end process before rebooting. The other option is to download SmartClose and create a profile to specifically close mim.exe before rebooting.

If you don't use Musicmatch, I suggest uninstalling it. The music files compatible with Musicmatch are also compatible with every other audio player on the planet, so you really don't need it. If it's causing you problems, eliminate the possibility of your system getting stuck by uninstalling. At the very least, make sure you have the latest version installed in case the version on your system has a bug.

Answer 2

it is a process belonging to the MusicMatch jukebox. It stays in the active processes even after you close the player. to prevent the error message you can uninstall the player or send me a message and i can walk you through a registry tweak that will get rid of the problem.

Answer 3

Try here to get tips on how to fix it...

http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20050826_mimexe_not_responding.html

or use yahoo or google to search typing this exactly: mim.exe "not responding" fix

Good luck :)