BingDesktopUpdater.exe
Bing Desktop by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 1.2.118.0 |
| MD5: | 633cd23c2efad807ac8b54978a56cfda |
| SHA1: | ad6c5487e48ed1497f96645de2a7714b23f68d18 |
| SHA256: | 77d96c328d5454755be4736f27eb9deca7297dca795ac82971b1ddaa44aaa180 |
What is BingDesktopUpdater.exe?
Bing Desktop is a gadget-like Windows program for Windows 7 that adds a search bar to Windows Desktop and changes the desktop background to that of Bing's image of the day. Bing Desktop updating service is the software updater program which runs in the background of Windows and automatically starts up when your PC boots. It checks for software udpates and automatically downloads and installs them if found.
Overview
bingdesktopupdater.exe runs as a service under the name Bing Desktop Update service (BingDesktopUpdate) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). 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: | bingdesktopupdater.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corp. |
| Product name: | Bing Desktop |
| Description: | Bing Desktop updating service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\microsoft\bingdesktop\bingdesktopupdater.exe |
| File version: | 1.2.118.0 |
| Size: | 164.59 KB (168,544 bytes) |
| Build date: | 3/26/2013 3:28 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Monday, October 10, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
| 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 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.
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 ...
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'BingDesktopUpdate' (Bing Desktop Update service)
- BingDesktopUpdate
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 65404
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00009183% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00004591% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00004591% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 109 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 14,805/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 4.51 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 7.38 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 7.26 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 4.51 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 75.91 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 79.91 MB | |
| Working set: | 7.28 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 7.39 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,495/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 43 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 42 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 199 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 13/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 159 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\microsoft\bingdesktop\bingdesktopupdater.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | BingDesktopUpdate |
| Display name: | Bing Desktop Update service |
| Description: | “Bing Desktop Update Service” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| BingDesktopUpdater.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00003285% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001971% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001314% | |
| CPU cycles: | 664/sec | |
| Memory: | 168 KB | |
| winhttp.dll (Windows HTTP Services by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001649% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000330% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001319% | |
| CPU cycles: | 6,570/sec | |
| Memory: | 384 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
42.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
12.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
8.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
8.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
7.50% |
|
| Windows 8 |
7.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
3.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
3.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 61.81% of Bing Desktop.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
23.15% |
|
| Dell |
16.75% |
|
| Toshiba |
12.81% |
|
| ASUS |
11.82% |
|
| Acer |
10.84% |
|
| Sony |
9.85% |
|
| Lenovo |
4.93% |
|
| Intel |
4.93% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
3.94% |
|
| Medion |
0.99% |
|
