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What is pcha.exe?

Part of PC Health Advisor by ParetoLogic

What is it?

ParetoLogic PC Health Advisor is a Windows tune-up program that provides a number of features with the intention to increase PC performance. Tools include a startup manager to add and remove various startup programs, and a file cleaner to remove temporary, log and other unneeded files.

Description of pcha.exe from ParetoLogic

“There are so many ways for your computer to slow down and lose performance power. Until now, optimizing your PC by addressing each of these factors took advanced technical knowledge, a variety of complex tools, and plenty of your time. Now, there is ParetoLogic PC Health Advisor. This innovative software boasts a comprehensive suite of tools to optimize, clean, maintain and even protect your computer. It easily fixes common errors that can plague your computer and clears away files that clutter and slow down your system. PC Health Advisor is no regular utility program.”

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How does pcha.exe run?

Process - pcha.exe is an instance of a running program. This 32-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account. pcha.exe is executed by the process taskeng.exe (Task Scheduler Engine by Microsoft).

How does pcha.exe start?

Scheduled task - pcha.exe is launched automatically by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\PC Health Advisor'. Task Scheduler provides the ability to schedule the launch of programs or scripts at pre-defined times or after specified time intervals or even with event-based triggers.

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What is the community is seeing?	What is the community is doing?
About 0.5% of all Boost users have the pcha.exe process running.	Of the 0.5% of pcha.exe users, 73.0% have disabled it.

How stable is PC Health Advisor?

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.

	pcha.exe0.03%

	Typical program1.26%

How resource intensive is pcha.exe?

Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.

0.49550% CPU4954967.1%

Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.

85.43 MB RAM396.7%

Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.

480 /min21.3%

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

536 GDI objects357.3%

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

Typical file (disk image) location:

C:\Program Files\paretologic\pcha\pcha.exe

Are there other versions of PC Health Advisor?

pcha.exe - version 3.0.0.0

pcha.exe - version 3, 1, 4, 0 (this)

pcha.exe - version 3, 1, 3, 0

pcha.exe - version 3, 1, 0, 1

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 PC Health Advisor.

litezip.dll (Create a ZIP archive )

7zipdll.dll

extensionmanager.dll (Extensio Dynamic Link Library )

liteunzip.dll (Extract the contents from a ZIP archive )

myresources.dll (PC Health Advisor by ParetoLogic)

What programs install pcha.exe?

ParetoLogic PC Health Advisor (by ParetoLogic, Inc.)

ParetoLogic PC Health Advisor by ParetoLogic, Inc.

Program URL: www.paretologic.com

Install path: C:\Program Files\ParetoLogic\PCHA

Size: 12.64 MB

What else is related?

myresources.dll (PC Health Advisor by ParetoLogic)

xoftspyserviceps.dll (XoftspySE by ParetoLogic)

plcommondlg.dll (XoftspySE by ParetoLogic)

paretoshellext.dll (XoftspySE by ParetoLogic)

xoftspyservice.exe (XoftspySE by ParetoLogic)

xoftspyse.exe (XoftspySE by ParetoLogic)

drivercure.exe (DriverCure by ParetoLogic)

pareto_update3.exe (ParetoLogic-Update-Anwendung by ParetoLogic)

plavserviceps.dll (ParetoLogic Anti-Virus PLUS by ParetoLogic)

paretoshellext64.dll (ParetoLogic Anti-Virus PLUS by ParetoLogic)

pareto_av.exe (ParetoLogic Anti-Virus PLUS by ParetoLogic)

pareto_pc.exe (ParetoLogic Privacy Controls by ParetoLogic)

pareto_update3.exe (ParetoLogic Update Application by ParetoLogic)

regcurepro.exe (ParetoLogic RegCure Pro by ParetoLogic)

pareto_update.exe (ParetoLogic Update Application by ParetoLogic)

uus3.dll (Product Update by ParetoLogic)

filecure.exe (FileCure by ParetoLogic)

pareto_update3.exe (Update Application by ParetoLogic)

regcure.exe (RegCure by ParetoLogic)

taskeng.exe (Task Scheduler Engine by Microsoft)

PC Health Advisor Stability

pcha.exe crashes or has encountered a critical error 0.8900% of the time.


1.	Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH) Occurred: over 3 months ago

2.	Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH) Occurred: over 3 months ago

3.	Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH) Crashing module: ntdll.dll (still researching...) Occurred: over 3 months ago

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601.65536)

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File details

File name: pcha.exe

Publisher: ParetoLogic, Inc.

Name: PC Health Advisor

Description: ParetoLogic PC Health Advisor

Version: 3, 1, 4, 0

Product version: 3.1.4.12

Original file name: PCO.exe

Digital certificate

Issued to: ParetoLogic Inc.

Certificate authority: VeriSign

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages

Total CPU: 0.5205483555%

Privileged CPU: 0.0250516491%

User CPU: 0.49549670641872%

Privileged CPU time: 82181.33 ms

Privileged CPU time /min: 160 ms

CPU cycle count: 377,757,140

CPU cycle count /min: 434,318,737

Memory utilization averages

Committed memory: 240.09 MB

Peak committed memory: 256.16 MB

Paged memory: 85.43 MB

Peak paged memory: 98.29 MB

Paged system memory: 146.86 KB

Non-paged system memory: 45.98 KB

Working set memory: 72.74 MB

Peak working set memory: 113.55 MB

Min working set memory: 69.52 MB

Private memory: 85.43 MB

Page faults: 874,160

Page faults /min: 1,697

Process I/O averages

Total read operations: 12,092

Read operations /min: 23

Total read transfer: 266.02 MB

Read transfer /min: 528.84 KB

Total write operations: 5

Write operations /min: 1

Total write transfer: 763 Bytes

Write transfer /min: 0 Bytes

Total other operations: 1,721,362

Other operations /min: 3,342

Total other transfer: 13.91 MB

Other Transfer /min: 27.65 KB

GDI objects: 536

Peak GDI objects: 545

USER objects: 414

Peak USER objects: 420

Resources

Handle count average: 956

Thread count average: 15

Thread resource averages

pcha.exe

winmm.dll

ntdll.dll

gdiplus.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): User

Windows platform: 32-bit

Parent Process

taskeng.exe (Task Scheduler Engine by Microsoft)

Process Command

"C:\Program Files\ParetoLogic\PCHA\PCHA.exe" -defrag

Scheduled task details

Name: PC Health Advisor

Command: \PC Health Advisor

Network connectivity

UDP: LISTENING on port 62539

Image hashes

MD5: 4ca241ca92dc446d5449442fd463c219

SHA-1: 3e6d17dbd6712ef96d11ee835619262d3418a70f

SHA-256: 68ba0b8cd9853e8bfedb6fe4521ddf5f149329037267a923af4cd782689e84af

PE image details

Subsystem: Windows GUI

Import Table

7zipdll.dll View import functions for 7zipdll.dll

advapi32.dll View import functions for advapi32.dll

comctl32.dll View import functions for comctl32.dll

comdlg32.dll View import functions for comdlg32.dll

crypt32.dll View import functions for crypt32.dll

gdi32.dll

gdiplus.dll View import functions for gdiplus.dll

imm32.dll

iphlpapi.dll View import functions for iphlpapi.dll

kernel32.dll

litezip.dll View import functions for litezip.dll

mpr.dll

msimg32.dll View import functions for msimg32.dll

ole32.dll

oleacc.dll View import functions for oleacc.dll

oledlg.dll View import functions for oledlg.dll

psapi.dll

rpcrt4.dll View import functions for rpcrt4.dll

setupapi.dll View import functions for setupapi.dll

shell32.dll View import functions for shell32.dll

shfolder.dll View import functions for shfolder.dll

shlwapi.dll View import functions for shlwapi.dll

user32.dll

version.dll View import functions for version.dll

wininet.dll View import functions for wininet.dll

winmm.dll

winspool.drv View import functions for winspool.drv

wintrust.dll View import functions for wintrust.dll

ws2_32.dll View import functions for ws2_32.dll

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