boost.exe
Boost by Reason Software Company Inc. (Signed)
| Version: | 1.0.2.25383 |
| MD5: | 013af28765d3e21f01d4a3993313b196 |
| SHA1: | ca9742c256ed1387ef325e37abeba2b74f616c0f |
What is boost.exe?
Boost maintains performance and stability by preventing unnecessary programs from consuming system resources and affecting critical programs. When you start to feel your PC become sluggish, don't reboot, simply give your PC an instantaneous Boost with just one click.
About boost.exe (from Reason Software Company Inc.)
“Boost helps to restore the pep in your PC by removing crapware, bloatware, trialware, bundleware, and adware. Such “crapware” (and yes that’s an industry term) is known to cause system crashes, boot d”
Details
| File name: | boost.exe |
| Publisher: | Reason Software Company Inc. |
| Product name: | Boost |
| Typical file path: | C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\reason\boost\boost.exe
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| File version: | 1.0.2.25383 |
| Size: | 5.13 MB (5,378,368 bytes) |
| Build date: | 12/2/2013 1:06 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Reason Software Company Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
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Reason Software Company Inc. |
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Boost maintains performance and stability by preventing unnecessary programs from consuming system resources and affecting critical programs. When you start to feel your PC become sluggish, don't reboot, simply give your PC an instantaneous Boost with just one click. Boost helps to restore the pep in your PC by removing crapware, bloatware, trialware, bundleware, and adware. Such “crapware” (and yes that’s an industry term) is known to ...
Behaviors
Scheduled tasks
- The job '{BBBC1548-6134-4782-921A-0C5205F94C85}' runs on registration in the path '\{BBBC1548-6134-4782-921A-0C5205F94C85}'
- The task 'Boost' runs on logon in the path '\Boost'
- Entry path '\Boost'
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
- Login entry path '\Boost'
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Boost' → "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Reason\Boost\boost.exe" /autostart
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Reason\Boost\boost.exe'
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Boost' → "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\Reason\Boost\boost.exe" /autostart
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00164237% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00073059% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00091178% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 73,063 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 55.6 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 55.53 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.79 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 55.6 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 686.67 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 718.18 MB | |
| Working set: | 43.98 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 77.77 MB | |
| Page faults: | 350,718/min | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 18 | |
| Handles: | 530 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 80 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 95 | |
| GUI USER count: | 77 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 134 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| mscorwks.dll |
| Total CPU: | 8.33152059% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 5.15305447% | |
| User CPU: | 3.17846612% | |
| CPU cycles: | 95,781,285/sec | |
| Memory: | 9.62 MB | |
| boost.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.14859311% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.03295999% | |
| User CPU: | 0.11563312% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,435,153/sec | |
| Memory: | 5.16 MB | |
| aspnet_perf.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00036540% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00036540% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 26,243/sec | |
| Memory: | 52 KB | |
| gdiplus.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00018376% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00018376% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,235/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.59 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
34.50% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
14.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro |
13.50% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
9.00% |
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| Windows 8 |
6.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
6.00% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
4.50% |
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| Windows 8 Single Language |
3.00% |
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| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.50% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
1.50% |
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| Windows 8.1 N |
1.50% |
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| Windows 8 Enterprise N |
1.50% |
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| Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation |
1.50% |
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| Windows Seven Black Edition |
1.00% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 52.00% of Boost.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
19.92% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
17.53% |
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| Dell |
16.73% |
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| Acer |
13.55% |
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| Toshiba |
11.95% |
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| Lenovo |
9.56% |
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| Alienware |
2.79% |
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| Intel |
2.39% |
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| Sony |
2.39% |
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| Samsung |
1.99% |
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| GIGABYTE |
1.20% |
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