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60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
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WkDetect.exe
Microsoft Works 6.0 by Microsoft
| Version: | 6.00.1828.1 |
| MD5: | 3141750fad211c6dadf7c2dc2ec74da8 |
| SHA1: | 48b050a60646e184ffb735217d674bfe01b180b4 |
| SHA256: | e535acb90fdd017b76e6aa021cd5ce816bc264988762f50adc73e43040f0baa3 |
Overview
wkdetect.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is set to be start when the PC boots and any user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the all users under the local machine).
Details
| File name: | wkdetect.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft® Corporation |
| Product name: | Microsoft® Works 6.0 |
| Description: | Microsoft® Works Update Detection |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\microsoft works\wkdetect.exe |
| File version: | 6.00.1828.1 |
| Product version: | 6.00.1828.1 |
| Size: | 28.07 KB (28,739 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Microsoft Works Update Detection' → C:\Program Files\Microsoft Works\WkDetect.exe
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00007720% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00005802% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001919% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 109 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 13,870/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.33 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 5.85 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.12 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.33 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 47.5 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 51.58 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.16 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 5.94 MB | |
| Page faults: | 4,898/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 32 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 60 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 2/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 2 | |
| Handles: | 30 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 4 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 4 | |
| GUI USER count: | 1 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 1 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\microsoft works\wkdetect.exe" |
| Owner: | User |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
100.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of Microsoft® Works 6.0.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
100.00% |
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