BDSurrogateHost.exe
Bing Desktop by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 1.3.470.0 |
| MD5: | e39c48b65200c28fe0f7cb700732f332 |
| SHA1: | ac623308d4b920598f7b312d72e1d0664af16aca |
Overview
bdsurrogatehost.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: | bdsurrogatehost.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corp. |
| Product name: | Bing Desktop |
| Description: | BDSurrogateHost.exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\microsoft\bingdesktop\bdsurrogatehost.exe |
| File version: | 1.3.470.0 |
| Size: | 43.72 KB (44,768 bytes) |
| Build date: | 6/3/2014 9:33 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, April 22, 2014 |
| Expiration date: | Wednesday, July 22, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .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: | 0.00024331% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00020301% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00004031% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 775 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 264,421/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.24 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 9.27 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 7.06 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.24 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 83.71 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 100.57 MB | |
| Working set: | 8.59 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 22.87 MB | |
| Page faults: | 16,906/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.06 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 628 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 247 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 23/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 151 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 20 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 24 | |
| GUI USER count: | 18 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 21 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00138791% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00138791% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,024/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
| BDSurrogateHost.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00090561% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00040894% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00049666% | |
| CPU cycles: | 24,806/sec | |
| Memory: | 40 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
66.67% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
33.33% |
|
Distribution by country
Ireland installs about 66.67% of Bing Desktop.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
40.00% |
|
| ASUS |
40.00% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
20.00% |
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