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45% of PCs block this file from running.
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Performance resource utilization
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BDExtHost.exe
Bing Desktop by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 1.3.470.0 |
| MD5: | b59421860fd19d81be1385c594795389 |
| SHA1: | ca45e935597de72ab9cb6ff51d83cacc6ea16a2f |
Overview
bdexthost.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). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Bing Desktop published by Microsoft Corporation, Bing Desktop from Microsoft Corporation and Bing Desktop by Microsoft Corporation. The file is digitally signed by Microsoft Corporation.
Details
| File name: | bdexthost.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corp. |
| Product name: | Bing Desktop |
| Description: | BDExtHost.exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\microsoft\bingdesktop\bdexthost.exe |
| File version: | 1.3.470.0 |
| Size: | 203.72 KB (208,608 bytes) |
| Build date: | 6/3/2014 9:34 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, April 24, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“Bing Desktop marries the beauty of Bing’s daily homepage with a quick and convenient search interface so you don’t have to open our browser to start a search session or get the latest headlines. Every day, the Windows Desktop Background will automatically refresh to a high resolution version of the day’s home page, drawn from the images Bing uses around the world. Bing Desktop also provides a fast and simple route to get search results.”
Bing Bar is a browser extension toolbar for Internet Explorer, developed by Microsoft. Bing Bar was previously supported on Mozilla Firefox but Microsoft discontinued support. Bing Bar incorporates features from Windows Live and from the Bing search engine. The Bing Bar user-interface enables visual effects such as flip, slide and rollover animations, colors and themes. The toolbar features "flyout" content windows, which enables users ...
Bing Desktop is a program developed by Microsoft which allows users to search Bing from the desktop, and to set their desktop background to the Bing homepage image. Bing Desktop allows users to initiate a web search from the desktop, view news headlines, automatically set their background to the Bing homepage image, or choose a background from the previous nine background images.
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00025932% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00016656% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00009276% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 676 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 127,215/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 2.48 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 8.58 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 5.63 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 2.48 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 79.62 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 82.9 MB | |
| Working set: | 6.68 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 8.6 MB | |
| Page faults: | 3,537/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.76 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 5/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 166 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 22/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 133 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 19 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 27 | |
| GUI USER count: | 21 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 26 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.03292009% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.03285701% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00006308% | |
| CPU cycles: | 19,858/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
| BDExtHost.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00057555% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00040888% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00016667% | |
| CPU cycles: | 14,653/sec | |
| Memory: | 200 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
30.43% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
13.04% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
8.70% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
8.70% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
8.70% |
|
| Windows 8 |
8.70% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
4.35% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
4.35% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
4.35% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
4.35% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
4.35% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 47.83% of Bing Desktop.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
17.24% |
|
| Acer |
17.24% |
|
| Dell |
13.79% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
10.34% |
|
| ASUS |
6.90% |
|
| Medion |
6.90% |
|
| Intel |
6.90% |
|
| Sony |
6.90% |
|
| Lenovo |
6.90% |
|
| Toshiba |
6.90% |
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