HPNetworkCommunicator.exe
HP Digital Imaging by Hewlett Packard (Signed)
| Version: | 25.0.571.0 |
| MD5: | 9a35691d7ddd8f948d564bec93558d28 |
| SHA1: | b94d67e073795ee765a233c8afde17422bbff964 |
| SHA256: | 6a9dd0e355046d842e84099ef25cbf82d23cff61b34a31a41f19cc9508c6801b |
What is HPNetworkCommunicator.exe?
HP Network Communicator is installed when you install a piece of Hewlett Packard hardware such as a printer or scanner onto your PC. It is used to communicate various function between the HP harware and installed software.
Overview
hpnetworkcommunicator.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
hpstatusbl.dll (HP Digital Imaging by Hewlett Packard). It has been configured with a firewall exception which allows both inbound and outbound network communication without being blocked. The file is digitally signed by Hewlett Packard which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | hpnetworkcommunicator.exe |
| Publisher: | Hewlett-Packard Co. |
| Product name: | HP Digital Imaging |
| Description: | HPNetworkCommunicator |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\hp\hp envy 110 series\bin\hpnetworkcommunicator.exe |
| File version: | 25.0.571.0 |
| Product version: | 025.000.571.000 |
| Size: | 890.85 KB (912,232 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Hewlett Packard |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, September 3, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Programas\HP\HP Deskjet 3050A J611 series\Bin\HPNetworkCommunicator.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\HP\HP Deskjet 3050A J611 series\Bin\HPNetworkCommunicator.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\HP\HP Photosmart 6510 series\Bin\HPNetworkCommunicator.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\HP\HP Deskjet 3520 series\Bin\HPNetworkCommunicator.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\HP\HP Photosmart 7520 series\Bin\HPNetworkCommunicator.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\HP\HP Deskjet 3050 J610 series\Bin\HPNetworkCommunicator.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\HP\HP Officejet Pro 8500 A910\Bin\HPNetworkCommunicator.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\HP\HP Photosmart Plus B210 series\Bin\HPNetworkCommunicator.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\HP\HP Deskjet 3520 series\Bin\HPNetworkCommunicator.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\HP\HP Officejet 6500 E710n-z\Bin\HPNetworkCommunicator.exe'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00011478% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006941% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00004537% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 407,108 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,429,240/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 6.93 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 12.41 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 7.56 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 6.93 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 83.45 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 98.86 MB | |
| Working set: | 7.98 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 12.54 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,881,152/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 26.71 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 994/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 31.92 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 32/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 36.98 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1,354/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 4 | |
| Handles: | 11673 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 9 | |
| GUI USER count: | 1 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 3 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | High |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\hp\hp envy 110 series\bin\hpnetworkcommunicator.exe" |
| Owner: | User |
| Parent processes: |
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Threads
Averages
| HPNetworkCommunicator.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.03955143% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.03277176% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00677967% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,123,169/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 920 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00163867% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00148870% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00014997% | |
| CPU cycles: | 46,169/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
| mswsock.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00044531% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00028338% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00016193% | |
| CPU cycles: | 7,372/sec | |
| Memory: | 340 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
31.88% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
24.64% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
14.49% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
10.14% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
4.35% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
2.90% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
2.90% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
2.90% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
1.45% |
|
| Windows 8 |
1.45% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
1.45% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
1.45% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 72.06% of HP Digital Imaging.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Toshiba |
22.22% |
|
| Dell |
22.22% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
17.46% |
|
| Sony |
15.87% |
|
| Intel |
6.35% |
|
| Acer |
4.76% |
|
| ASUS |
3.17% |
|
| Lenovo |
3.17% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
1.59% |
|
| Packard Bell |
1.59% |
|
| Samsung |
1.59% |
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