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What is explorer.exe?

Part of Besturingssysteem Microsoft® Windows® by Microsoft

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How does explorer.exe run?

Process - explorer.exe is an instance of a running program. This 32-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account. explorer.exe is executed by the process winlogon.exe (Besturingssysteem Microsoft® Windows® by Microsoft).

How does explorer.exe start?

Shell open command - explorer.exe is typically associtated with identifier name of SHCmdFile with and identifier of explorer.exe. 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.

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What is the community is seeing?What is the community is doing?
About 0.1% of all Boost users have the explorer.exe process running.Of the 0.1% of explorer.exe users, 27.0% have disabled it.
How resource intensive is explorer.exe?
Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.
0.00060% CPU6026.9%
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
40.25 MB RAM186.9%
Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.
574 GDI objects382.7%
Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.
123 context switches/sec123.0%
Average context switches for all programs is 100 per second.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\windows\explorer\explorer.exe

Are there other versions of Besturingssysteem Microsoft® W...?

explorer.exe - version 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
explorer.exe - version 6.00.2900.5512 (xpsp.080413-2105) (this)

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 Besturingssysteem Microsoft® Windows®.
oledb32.dll (Microsoft Data Access Components by Microsoft)
dfshim.dll (Microsoft® .NET Framework by Microsoft)
hhctrl.ocx (HTML Help by Microsoft)
webcheck.dll (Windows® Internet Explorer by Microsoft)
mshtml.dll (Windows® Internet Explorer by Microsoft)
sdhelper.dll (Spybot - Search & Destroy by Safer Networking Ltd)
avgse.dll (AVG Internet Security by AVG Technologies)
wpdshserviceobj.dll (Windows Portable Device Shell Service Object by Microsoft)
avgsysx.dll (AVG Internet Security by AVG Technologies)
msnlnamespacemgr.dll (Windows® Search by Microsoft)
deskbar.dll (Windows Search Deskbar extension by Microsoft)
babylondoctranslationpi.dll (Babylon Compressor 1.0 by Babylon Ltd)
shdocvw.dll (Objecten- en besturingselementenbibliotheek Shell Doc by Microsoft)
browseui.dll (Shell Browser-bibliotheek voor gebruikersinterface by Microsoft)
stobject.dll (Systray-shellserviceobject by Microsoft)
cscui.dll (Gebruikersinterface voor caching aan clientzijde by Microsoft)
cscdll.dll (Off line netwerk-agent by Microsoft)
mydocs.dll (De gebruikersinterface van de map Mijn documenten by Microsoft)
ntshrui.dll (Shell-uitbreidingen voor delen by Microsoft)
themeui.dll (Windows Thema-API by Microsoft)

What else is related?

ipnathlp.dll (Helper-onderdelen voor Microsoft NAT by Microsoft)
wmisvc.dll (WMI by Microsoft)
w32time.dll (Windows Time-service by Microsoft)
srsvc.dll (System Restore-service by Microsoft)
netman.dll (Netwerkverbindingsbeheer by Microsoft)
qmgr.dll (Intelligente achtergrondsoverdrachtservice by Microsoft)
schedsvc.dll (Taakplanner Engine by Microsoft)
wzcsvc.dll (Wireless Zero Configuration-service by Microsoft)
mswsock.dll (Microsoft Windows Sockets 2.0 Service-aanbieder by Microsoft)
dhcpcsvc.dll (DHCP Client-service by Microsoft)
shsvcs.dll (DLL-bestand voor Windows Shell Services by Microsoft)
dnsrslvr.dll (DNS Caching Resolver-service by Microsoft)
termsrv.dll (Terminal Services by Microsoft)
wiaservc.dll (Still Image-apparatenservice by Microsoft)
oleprn.dll (Oleprn DLL by Microsoft)
asctrls.ocx (Active Setup-besturingselementen by Microsoft)
camocx.dll (DLL voor WIA-cameraweergave by Microsoft)
ixsso.dll (Object voor Indexing-service aan de serverzijde by Microsoft)
wmpshell.dll (Windows Media Player Starter by Microsoft)
cabview.dll (Shell-extensie Cab-bestandsviewer by Microsoft)
photowiz.dll (Wizard Afbeeldingen afdrukken by Microsoft)
dfsshlex.dll (Distributed File System-shelluitbreiding by Microsoft)

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.196608)

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File details

File name: explorer.exe
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
Name: Besturingssysteem Microsoft® Windows®
Description: Windows Verkenner
Version: 6.00.2900.5512 (xpsp.080413-2105)
Product version: 6.00.2900.5512
Size: 1013 KB
Original file name: EXPLORER.EXE.MUI

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 0.0024779369%
Privileged CPU: 0.0018752505%
User CPU: 0.00060268638293%
Privileged CPU time: 54140625 ms
Privileged CPU time /min: 0 ms
Context switches /sec: 123
Memory utilization averages
Committed memory: 189.83 MB
Peak committed memory: 262.98 MB
Paged memory: 40.25 MB
Peak paged memory: 61.39 MB
Paged system memory: 287.14 KB
Non-paged system memory: 21.52 KB
Working set memory: 7.91 MB
Peak working set memory: 74.19 MB
Min working set memory: 7.47 MB
Private memory: 40.25 MB
Page faults: 619,309
Page faults /min: 0
Process I/O averages
Total read operations: 323,020
Total read transfer: 21.87 MB
Total write operations: 246
Total write transfer: 971.89 KB
Total other operations: 264,031
Total other transfer: 27.38 MB
GUI Object Averages
GDI objects: 574
USER objects: 248
Resources
Handle count average: 1,009
Thread count average: 20

Process details

Runs as (owner): User
Integrety level: Undefined
Windows platform: 32-bit
System Tray: Yes
Parent Process
winlogon.exe (Besturingssysteem Microsoft® Windows® by Microsoft)
Process Command
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe

Shell open command details

Name: SHCmdFile
Command: explorer.exe

Image hashes

MD5: aa04f042a820bf1868e643575887e1a6
SHA-1: c5bc4c6941c68270382d6db18d626e24c6a5f227
SHA-256: af3869090ecf181148065d22a4900d1cc104da5b4505196e8c0fb662c6efdbf5

PE image details

CLR assembly: Yes
CLR NGENed: No
Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET
File packed: No
Import Table
advapi32.dll
gdi32.dll
kernel32.dll
msvcrt.dll
ntdll.dll
ole32.dll
shell32.dll
shlwapi.dll
user32.dll
uxtheme.dll
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