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What is notepad.exe?

Part of Notepad by Microsoft

What is it?

Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows. It has been included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985. Notepad is a common text-only (plain text) editor. The resulting files—typically saved with the .txt extension—have no format tags or styles.
Description of notepad.exe from Microsoft
“Notepad is a basic text editor you can use for simple documents or for creating Web pages. ”
(notepad.exe is a system file that is installed with Windows)
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How does notepad.exe run?

Process - notepad.exe is an instance of a running program. This 64-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account.

How does notepad.exe start?

Shell open command - notepad.exe is typically associtated with identifier name of inifile with and identifier of C:\Windows\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1. A Shell Open Command allows for an association of a file extension and a program. This association allows an application to be run when the icon or a context menu item is clicked upon in the Windows Explorer window.

Community

What is the community is seeing?What is the community is doing?
About 0.2% of all Boost users have the notepad.exe process running.Of the 0.2% of notepad.exe users, less than 1% have disabled it.
How stable is Notepad?
Based on crash data discovered by Boost, stability is a measure of how sound this particular process and the average percent of times it crashes.
     notepad.exe0.03%
Typical program1.26%
How resource intensive is notepad.exe?
Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.
0.00101% CPU10129.0%
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
          6.43 MB RAM29.9%
Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.
 5 /min0.2%
Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.
79 GDI objects52.7%
Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.
     2 context switches/sec2.0%
Average context switches for all programs is 100 per second.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe

Are there other versions of Notepad?

notepad.exe - version 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) (this)
notepad.exe - version 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
notepad.exe - version 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
notepad.exe - version 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
notepad.exe - version 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
notepad.exe - version 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Why are multiple of the same versions listed?

What modules are loaded?

A module is a dynamic link library (DLL) or an executable file that is loaded into the process. Below is a list of non-system modules that are loaded by Notepad.
ntshrui.dll (Shell extensions for sharing by Microsoft)

What else is related?

themeui.dll (Windows-Design-API by Microsoft)
sstext3d.scr (Direct3D-Textbildschirmschoner by Microsoft)
photoviewershim.dll (Windows Live Photo Gallery by Microsoft)
logonui.exe (Windows-Anmeldebenutzeroberfläche by Microsoft)
msxml4a.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP1 by Microsoft)
msxml4r.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP1 by Microsoft)
msxml4.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP 2 by Microsoft)
freecell.exe (Entertainment Pack FreeCell Game by Microsoft)
wiaacmgr.exe (Windows Picture Acquisition Wizard by Microsoft)
prodaiintl1033.dll (ProdAddInIntl by Microsoft)
mimectl.dll (Microsoft® Exchange by Microsoft)
msvcp60.dll (Microsoft (R) Visual C++ by Microsoft)
rstrui.exe (System Restore Application by Microsoft)
dismhost.exe (Dism Host Servicing Process by Microsoft)
bcmsqlstartupsvc.exe (Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook 2010 by Microsoft)
msonsext.dll (Microsoft Office by Microsoft)
encwcbar.dll (Microsoft Encarta by Microsoft)
workfolderssvc.dll (Microsoft® Work Folders Service by Microsoft)
appreadiness.dll (AppReadiness by Microsoft)
ole32.dll (Microsoft OLE for Windows by Microsoft)
microsoft.biztalk.brmacontrols.dll (Microsoft (R) BizTalk (R) Server 2010 by Microsoft)
ssoconfig.exe (Microsoft® Enterprise Single Sign-On by Microsoft)

Notepad Stability

notepad.exe crashes or has encountered a critical error 0.8900% of the time.
1.  
Error: A cess de fonctionner et a t ferm (AppHangB1)
Details: Un probl�me a provoqu� l arr�t de l interaction de ce programme avec Windows.
Occurred: over 6 months ago
2.  
Error: Stopped responding and was closed (AppHangB1)
Details: A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Occurred: over 3 months ago
3.  
Error: Stopped responding and was closed (AppHangB1)
Details: A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Occurred: over 3 months ago

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows 8 (6.2.9200.0)
Windows 8 Enterprise (6.2.9200.0)
Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation (6.2.9200.0)
Windows 8 Pro (6.2.9200.0)
Windows 8 Pro N (6.2.9200.0)
Windows 8 Pro with Media Center (6.2.9200.0)
Windows 8 (6.2.9200.0)
Windows 8 Pro (6.2.9200.0)

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File details

File name: notepad.exe
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation (verified)
Name: Notepad
Description: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Version: 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247)
Product version: 6.2.9200.16384
Size: 228.5 KB
Original file name: NOTEPAD.EXE.MUI
Windows file protection: Yes

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 0.0016989911%
Privileged CPU: 0.0006860864%
User CPU: 0.00101290462358%
Privileged CPU time: 1296.88 ms
Privileged CPU time /min: 50 ms
CPU cycle count: 14,530,917
CPU cycle count /min: 166,349,535
Context switches /sec: 2
Memory utilization averages
Committed memory: 115.54 MB
Peak committed memory: 406.02 MB
Paged memory: 6.43 MB
Peak paged memory: 9.65 MB
Paged system memory: 228.07 KB
Non-paged system memory: 21.06 KB
Working set memory: 19.61 MB
Peak working set memory: 23.6 MB
Min working set memory: 7.42 MB
Private memory: 6.43 MB
Page faults: 8,839
Page faults /min: 341
Process I/O averages
Total read operations: 94
Read operations /min: 4
Total read transfer: 326.85 KB
Read transfer /min: 12.62 KB
Total write operations: 2
Write operations /min: 1
Total write transfer: 232 Bytes
Write transfer /min: 9 Bytes
Total other operations: 1,682
Other operations /min: 65
Total other transfer: 26.22 KB
Other Transfer /min: 1.01 KB
GUI Object Averages
GDI objects: 79
Peak GDI objects: 188
USER objects: 32
Peak USER objects: 152
Resources
Handle count average: 289
Thread count average: 4
Thread resource averages

Process details

Runs as (owner): User
Integrety level: High
Windows platform: 64-bit
Process Command
"C:\Windows\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE" C:\Program Files\Doom 3\cdoom\docs\Readme.txt

Shell open command details

Name: comfile
Command: NOTEPAD.EXE %1

Image hashes

MD5: 22e1963fe26d5bceab0575eb6ff60cb5
SHA-1: c23f9cf64fe79305b8233c937da0eb05464f8396
SHA-256: 234b85ffe6db161ab421ed8d2a86c5882c85585ef4a471b44fc7ce0347c85615

PE image details

Subsystem: Windows GUI
Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C++
File entropy: 7.12185
File packed: No
Import Table
advapi32.dll
comctl32.dll
comdlg32.dll
gdi32.dll
kernel32.dll
msvcrt.dll
ntdll.dll
ole32.dll
shell32.dll
shlwapi.dll
user32.dll
version.dll
winspool.drv
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