backgroundTaskHost.exe
Background Task Host by Microsoft
| Version: | 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) |
| MD5: | a2d246cf52d67e7db8563f248c44b89b |
| SHA1: | 88f2ba1d55b27c3ba380d447a3654b078f831287 |
| SHA256: | 7a15a061c763fadceca0cbc57650f392fcd8827ba5c6a9807a5005c7c52d22d7 |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
Overview
backgroundtaskhost.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation). The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). This version is installed on Windows 8 and is compiled as a 32 bit program.
Details
| File name: | backgroundtaskhost.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Background Task Host |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\backgroundtaskhost.exe |
| File version: | 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) |
| Product version: | 6.2.9200.16384 |
| Size: | 8.5 KB (8,704 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 58313
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00225862% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00225862% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 42 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 7,982/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 5.59 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 7.9 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 3.19 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 5.59 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 99.07 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 102.28 MB | |
| Working set: | 2.28 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 8.83 MB | |
| Page faults: | 5,678/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 30 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 10 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 16 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 7 | |
| Handles: | 202 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 6 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 6 | |
| GUI USER count: | 3 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 4 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Low |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Windows\System32\backgroundtaskhost.exe" -servernamC:app.appxtfr7aqh8scbre7cejn7f73qp5pad90wx.mca
- "C:\windows\syswow64\backgroundtaskhost.exe" -servernamC:app.appxt014q6qzk9mjya2jb3xbkeaj9z6kaf4x.mca
- "C:\Windows\System32\backgroundtaskhost.exe" -servernamC:app.appxddt3w60atwx5bn2nda6a1b22ct1pgn3g.mca
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation) |
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00265951% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00265951% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 58,666/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.4 MB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8 Pro |
42.86% |
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| Windows 8 |
23.81% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
14.29% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
14.29% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
4.76% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 47.62% of Background Task Host.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Lenovo |
23.53% |
|
| Sony |
23.53% |
|
| Acer |
23.53% |
|
| ASUS |
11.76% |
|
| Intel |
11.76% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
5.88% |
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