This is the name of a long forgotten
computer program that has come with
Windows for
PCs since the middle
1980s. It was originally just SOUNDREC.EXE if memory serves. Nowadays it's called SNDREC32.EXE because they allegedly updated it from the days of Windows 3.0 to Windows 95, but you still can't record more than a moment's worth of anything at a time, so they didn't update it much. It's a simple program that back in 1985 was pretty nifty. Sound Recorder could play
wavefiles and you could record wavefiles of your own voice if you had a
microphone properly attached to your
soundcard. It's an utterly useless little program now, and is one of the many things that takes up space in Windows causing it to be quite the
memory hog. Yet another little known program that's still in Windows which hasn't been used for years is called
Program Manager aka PROGMAN.EXE. It's still in the C:\WINDOWS directory if you know where to look for it. Pretty amazing, eh? It's still there for what they call
backwards compatibility but really it's just accumulating
dust and
cobwebs. The
kernel rarely ever refers to PROGMAN or Sound Recorder at all nowadays.
I'd think twice before deleting these things off your hard drive though. You never know when you may need an old fossil in Bill Gates arsenal.