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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 32-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 0.1% of all Boost users have the notepad.exe process running.Of the 0.1% of notepad.exe users, less than 1% have disabled it.
How resource intensive is notepad.exe?
Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.
0.00832% CPU83191.2%
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
          3.6 MB RAM16.7%
Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.
              32 GDI objects21.3%
Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.
          22 context switches/sec22.0%
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 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)
notepad.exe - version 6.3.9431.0 (winmain_bluemp.130615-1214)
notepad.exe - version 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247)
notepad.exe - version 6.2.8400.0 (winmain_win8rc.120518-1423)
notepad.exe - version 6.2.8250.0 (winmain_win8beta.120217-1520)
notepad.exe - version 6.2.8102.0 (winmain_win8m3.110823-1455)
notepad.exe - version 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
notepad.exe - version 5.2.3790.3959 (srv03_sp2_rtm.070216-1710)
notepad.exe - version 5.2.3790.1830 (srv03_sp1_rtm.050324-1447)
notepad.exe - version 5.1.2600.5877 (xpsp_sp3_qfe.090916-1338)
notepad.exe - version 5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2105)
notepad.exe - version 5.1.2600.3311 (xpsp.080212-0004)
notepad.exe - version 5.1.2600.3300 (xpsp.080125-2028)
notepad.exe - version 5.1.2600.3244 (xpsp.071030-1535)
notepad.exe - version 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)

What else is related?

sndvol32.exe (Contrôle du volume by Microsoft)
rstrui.exe (Restaurar sistema de Microsoft® Windows by Microsoft)
werfault.exe (Informe de problemas de Windows by Microsoft)
vsetwservice.exe (Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2013 RC by Microsoft)
vcmd.exe (Microsoft Speech by Microsoft)
mssnapr.dll (Microsoft(R) Windows (R) 2000 Operating System by Microsoft)
powerpnt.exe (Microsoft Office 2003 by Microsoft)
audiodev.dll (Extensión de shell de dispositivos de medios portátiles by Microsoft)
ssmypics.scr (Protector de pantalla Presentación de mis imágenes by Microsoft)
dpnsvr.exe (Servidor de DirectPlay8 de Microsoft by Microsoft)
mobsync.exe (Administrador de sincronización de Microsoft by Microsoft)
wldlog.dll (Windows Live Desktop Logging by Microsoft)
themecpl.dll (Personalisation CPL by Microsoft)
winlogon.exe (Windows Log-on Application by Microsoft)
ikeext.dll (Estensione IKE by Microsoft)
wlsetup-webmsn.exe (Windows Live by Microsoft)
sethc.exe (Accessibility shortcut keys by Microsoft)
applaunch.exe (Microsoft® .NET Framework by Microsoft)
provsvc.dll (Grupo Hogar de Windows by Microsoft)
wscsvc.dll (Servicio de Centro de seguridad de Windows by Microsoft)
dhcpcore.dll (Servicio cliente DHCP by Microsoft)
lmhsvc.dll (DLL de servicios de transporte de NetBIOS sobre TCPIP 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: notepad.exe
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation (verified)
Name: Notepad
Description: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Version: 5.1.2600.5877 (xpsp_sp3_qfe.090916-1338)
Product version: 5.1.2600.5877
Size: 213.5 KB
Original file name: NOTEPAD.EXE
Windows file protection: Yes

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 0.0180694938%
Privileged CPU: 0.0097503704%
User CPU: 0.00831912336119%
Privileged CPU time: 1109375 ms
Privileged CPU time /min: 0 ms
Context switches /sec: 22
Memory utilization averages
Committed memory: 51.96 MB
Peak committed memory: 75.99 MB
Paged memory: 3.6 MB
Peak paged memory: 28.59 MB
Paged system memory: 102.02 KB
Non-paged system memory: 2.7 KB
Working set memory: 1.84 MB
Peak working set memory: 6.64 MB
Min working set memory: 560 KB
Private memory: 3.6 MB
Page faults: 2,278
Page faults /min: 0
Process I/O averages
Total read operations: 6
Total read transfer: 408 Bytes
Total write operations: 13
Total write transfer: 1.16 KB
Total other operations: 487
Total other transfer: 3.36 KB
GUI Object Averages
GDI objects: 32
USER objects: 21
Resources
Handle count average: 64
Thread count average: 1

Process details

Runs as (owner): User
Integrety level: Undefined
Windows platform: 32-bit
Process Command
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE" C:\DOCUME~1\user\LocalS~1\Temp\7zO2FCB.tmp\README.txt

Shell open command details

Name: batfile
Command: NOTEPAD.EXE %1

Image hashes

MD5: 87048de5afe9a7c361551f28b6f9bc1e
SHA-1: 857fc5668d9ef68780e31b8e8e74df9070c59d3e

PE image details

Subsystem: Windows GUI
Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C++
File entropy: 5.86730
File packed: No
Import Table
advapi32.dll
comctl32.dll
comdlg32.dll
gdi32.dll
kernel32.dll
msvcrt.dll
shell32.dll
user32.dll
winspool.drv
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