Should I block it?
45% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
Additional versions
(Note, Spotify Ltd publishes each variation of this file with the same version, but the hashes are unique.)
Relationships
Parent process
Related files
SpotifyWebHelper.exe
By Spotify Ltd (Signed)
| MD5: | 6411b4ecfffd47d6872506cf8e2258c6 |
| SHA1: | b0bc86120588d517acd0be21a31590b8bb4cbf67 |
| SHA256: | aa7adaa8c3c8778364472b6b3b104c7ab6faeea5a2e26056bed3b8d68f2e7656 |
What is SpotifyWebHelper.exe?
This is the embedded web browser (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox) add-in of Spotify that detects when a user clicks on a spotify music link on the web and then openes the Spotify desktop program. Users can access applications integrated in the Spotify desktop client, written in HTML5. Spotify is a Swedish music streaming service offering digitally restricted streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels.
About SpotifyWebHelper.exe (from Spotify Ltd)
“Think of Spotify as your new music collection. Your library. Only this time your collection is vast: millions of tracks and counting. Spotify comes in all shapes and sizes, available for your PC, Mac,”
Details
| File name: | SpotifyWebHelper.exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\spotify\data\spotifywebhelper.exe |
| Size: | 1.14 MB (1,193,176 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Spotify Ltd |
| Authority (CA): | The USERTRUST Network |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Spotify Web Helper' → "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\Spotify\Data\SpotifyWebHelper.exe"
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001199% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000773% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000425% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 145 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 599/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 2.13 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 2.95 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.13 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 2.13 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 101.99 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 118.71 MB | |
| Working set: | 2.16 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 5.58 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,773/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 4 | |
| Handles: | 163 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 10 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 11 | |
| GUI USER count: | 3 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 4 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
63.64% |
|
| Windows 8 |
22.73% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
9.09% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
4.55% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 71.43% of SpotifyWebHelper.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Acer |
100.00% |
|
