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What is explorer.exe?

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How does explorer.exe run?

Process - explorer.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 explorer.exe start?

User start menu folder - The shortcut file explorer.lnk is loaded in the user's Startup folder (%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\) that points to the executable explorer.exe. The startup folder contains programs that automatically start when Windows starts for the logged in user.

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About 0.3% of all Boost users have the explorer.exe process running.	Of the 0.3% of explorer.exe users, 16.7% have disabled it.

How resource intensive is explorer.exe?

Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.

0.00050% CPU4977.0%

Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.

19.27 MB RAM89.5%

Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.

51 /min2.3%

Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.

9 GDI objects6.0%

Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.

426 context switches/sec426.0%

Average context switches for all programs is 100 per second.

Typical file (disk image) location:

C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\explorer.exe

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Microsoft Windows XP (6.1.7601.65536)

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File details

File name: explorer.exe

Version: 0.0.0.0

Original file name: clean avira.exe

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages

Total CPU: 0.0016025260%

Privileged CPU: 0.0011048252%

User CPU: 0.00049770081763%

Privileged CPU time: 27939.78 ms

Privileged CPU time /min: 39 ms

CPU cycle count: 401,264,640

CPU cycle count /min: 867,670,951

Context switches /sec: 426

Memory utilization averages

Committed memory: 174.28 MB

Peak committed memory: 176.22 MB

Paged memory: 19.27 MB

Peak paged memory: 21.99 MB

Paged system memory: 260.84 KB

Non-paged system memory: 36.21 KB

Working set memory: 1.04 MB

Peak working set memory: 16.45 MB

Min working set memory: 560 KB

Private memory: 19.27 MB

Page faults: 1,285,051

Page faults /min: 1,802

Process I/O averages

Total read operations: 3,103

Read operations /min: 4

Total read transfer: 371.63 MB

Read transfer /min: 533.6 KB

Total write operations: 33,712

Write operations /min: 47

Total write transfer: 461.58 MB

Write transfer /min: 662.76 KB

Total other operations: 99,647

Other operations /min: 140

Total other transfer: 539.45 KB

Other Transfer /min: 775 Bytes

GDI objects: 9

Peak GDI objects: 9

USER objects: 5

Peak USER objects: 6

Resources

Handle count average: 303

Thread count average: 13

Thread resource averages

explorer.exe

ntdll.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): User

Windows platform: 64-bit

Process Command

"C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\explorer.exe" ..

User start menu folder details $The startup folder contains programs that automatically start when Windows starts for the logged in user. Any application in this folder (C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Start Menu\Programs\Startup or under C:\User\USERNAME\) will be run when the particular user logs into Windows.$

Name: 93f19dda2412c86ad7520ba4198f39a0.exe

Image hashes

MD5: 3e16895e2b2c7847590d8f53b54430ed

SHA-1: d4284c19d8bcbbb8d55906d02d0ae60fa6fd2293

SHA-256: 7edd8c818364c38716194c442614bca2eeba7e24fcca28e9380d1ff0dca94a78

PE image details

CLR assembly: Yes

CLR NGENed: No

Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

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