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ATI2EVXX.exe
ATI External Event Utility for WindowsNT and Windows9X by ATI Technologies
| Version: | 6.14.10.4115 |
| MD5: | 97f0d1cfee7ccd1f3302f393ba3481fc |
| SHA1: | b11df75492deeea91bea045d7b2dc028db5dcb7b |
| SHA256: | 18b2fcd2e7c710ea27c652354a90410cfb45a4cab531ab4ce6373797b429dbe7 |
What is ATI2EVXX.exe?
The ATI External Event Utility for Windows reacts to external events (such as hotkeys or programs starting or stopping) and changes your video card's settings.
Overview
ati2evxx.exe runs as a service under the name Ati HotKey Poller with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access).
Details
| File name: | ati2evxx.exe |
| Publisher: | ATI Technologies Inc. |
| Product name: | ATI External Event Utility for WindowsNT and Windows9X |
| Description: | ATI External Event Utility EXE Module |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\ati2evxx.exe |
| File version: | 6.14.10.4115 |
| Product version: | 6.14.10.4115.01 |
| Size: | 356 KB (364,544 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00088605% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00058523% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00030081% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 359 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 12/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 896 KB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.24 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 454 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 896 KB | |
| Virtual memory: | 23.8 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 29.38 MB | |
| Working set: | 628 KB | |
| Working set (peak): | 3.25 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,199/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 184.1 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 120/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 4.7 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 120/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 3.06 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 673/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 68 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 11 | |
| GUI USER count: | 5 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Undefined |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- C:\Windows\System32\ati2evxx.exe
- ati2evxx.exe -client
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| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | Ati HotKey Poller |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess, InteractiveProcess |
| Parent processes: |
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Threads
Averages
| Ati2evxx.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00035501% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00022163% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00013338% | |
| Context switches: | 4/sec | |
| Memory: | 376 KB | |
| advapi32.dll (Advanced Windows 32 Base API by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00007736% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00005802% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001934% | |
| Context switches: | 7/sec | |
| Memory: | 620 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
97.56% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
2.44% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 56.10% of ATI External Event Utility for WindowsNT and Windows9X.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
43.24% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
18.92% |
|
| Toshiba |
16.22% |
|
| Intel |
10.81% |
|
| ASUS |
5.41% |
|
| Sahara |
2.70% |
|
| Acer |
2.70% |
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