Windows 10: What is Driver pmxdrv.sys?

Autoruns shows the driver pmxdrv.sys is loaded. It is described as a PAIPTAC Driver but there is no other information (see below). A Google search doesn't reveal what it is. Does anyone know what this driver is for?




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Apps not closing, still running in background

Thanks for the response. I am not looking for a "close all" function. Sometimes I intentionally want to leave an app running. In windows phone 8.1, I could exit and close th app by merely selecting the arrow/back button, I am looking for that same functionality.
When I'm in an app, I want to be able to exit directly from there and not have it continuing in the background.

 

Apps not closing, still running in background

I just got my Lumia 950 phone. On my prior Windows phone, when I pressed the arrow/back button on the bottom left screen, I would exit the app. On Windows 10 phone, I've been doing that and I just realized I'm not exiting the apps. I had intentionally not
exited an app (because it had my boarding pass). Instead of back button, I pressed the middle window button. Later when I went back to call up my airline app, I pressed the arrow/back button and held it. Similar to my old windows phone, it showed me all the
apps that were open. SURPRISE! unlike my previous phone, no app had been closing. Right now, I can't seem to find a "one click" way to exit an app. The only way is after I've done a few things, I hold the back button and click the "X" on each of the open items.

Can someone tell me how to exit an app with one click or swipe so that it is not still running, i.e. when I press the back button I will not see it? I'm sure this is something simple. I search the instructions that came with the phone and looked in the
forum but haven't found the answer.

thanks in advance the assist.

 

Internet search reveals that it's anti-malware. See
PAIPTAC Driver Analysis - Reason Core Security Labs

 

Thanks. At least that link shows the publisher is Intel. How hard can it be for Intel to insert details in the file so we can work out what the file is for?

 

That would make it too easy for us. LOL. Merry Christmas.

 

As this is the top result for the filename on Google I am necroing this to tell everyone that:

pmxdrv.sys is a component of the INTEL-SA-00086 Detection Tool included in SA00086_Windows.zip in case anyone else is wondering where it came from. That is the Hyperthreading Bug detection Tool. Possibly included in other Intel tools.

Took me a while to figure it out, so I thought I would spare others the time too look for it. Too bad Intel didn't bother to remove it once the Tool finished.