btvstack.exe
Bluetooth Software by Qualcomm Atheros (Signed)
| Version: | 8.0.0.226 |
| MD5: | ff792bf9fe26b72c9b22b52fdc5caee9 |
| SHA1: | 0655e7ff7ccc57f7163dc1824b8c0de9094b5948 |
What is btvstack.exe?
Extension Core is part of the Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth software suite that manages installed devices with the integrated combo WLAN and Bluetooth chips.
About btvstack.exe (from Qualcomm Atheros)
“Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth technology. It’s a great way to sync and share files, photos, music, games and videos at the speed of Wi-Fi, but with the ease of Bluetooth. It’s also a great way to extend ”
Details
| File name: | btvstack.exe |
| Publisher: | Qualcomm Atheros Commnucations |
| Product name: | Bluetooth Software |
| Description: | Extension Core |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\bluetooth suite\btvstack.exe |
| Original name: | btvStack.exe.mui |
| File version: | 8.0.0.226 |
| Size: | 129.63 KB (132,736 bytes) |
| Build date: | 4/24/2013 4:07 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Qualcomm Atheros |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“Bluetooth Win7 Suite is a PC-based software package that provides the upper-layer Bluetooth stack functionality in support of the Atheros Bluetooth solution. Bluetooth Win7 Suite requires a Bluetooth device to be connected via USB to the PC for proper operation. Bluetooth Win7 Suite, through its simple Graphical User Interface, allows you to quickly find, connect, and communicate with other Bluetooth devices. The Bluetooth Win7 Suite is...”
Atheros Bluetooth Suite (64-bit version) is the Bluetooth Software module for Atheros Commnucations line of Bluetool products. Atheros provides its own Bluetooth stack for easy portability and also supports standard Bluetooth stacks.
“Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth® technology. It’s a great way to sync and share files, photos, music, games and videos at the speed of Wi-Fi, but with the ease of Bluetooth. It’s also a great way to extend and enhance the usability of small mobile devices by connecting to external headsets, keyboards, mice and printers. Such efficient, very low-power connectivity brings devices together and transfers content at close range. And, it cooperate...”
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Atheros new WLAN and Bluetooth combo solution goes beyond coexistence to enable cooperation between WLAN, Bluetooth and even 3G technologies co-located on PC platforms. To support this new level of radio coexistence, Atheros has engineered a suite of advanced wireless techniques to deliver Atheros Universal Wireless Cooperation, consisting of channel protection and timesharing mechanisms, custom 3G coexistence optimization, and Athero...”
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'BtvStack' → "C:\Program Files\Bluetooth Suite\BtvStack.exe"
Scheduled tasks
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
- Login entry path '\BtvStack'
Policies Explorer run
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00156415% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00079096% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00077320% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 11,669 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 8.15 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 15.86 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 14.75 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 8.15 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 158.27 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 163.64 MB | |
| Working set: | 15.84 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 15.99 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 33 | |
| Handles: | 343 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 62 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 63 | |
| GUI USER count: | 43 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 46 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| le.dll (Bluetooth Software by Qualcomm Atheros Commnucations) |
| Total CPU: | 0.01207107% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01077906% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00129201% | |
| CPU cycles: | 150,557/sec | |
| Memory: | 320 KB | |
| BtvStack.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00062781% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00035097% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00027684% | |
| CPU cycles: | 10,974/sec | |
| Memory: | 144 KB | |
| activatedesktopdebugger.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00051678% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00022148% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00029530% | |
| CPU cycles: | 23,107/sec | |
| Memory: | 28 KB | |
| combase.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00007384% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00007384% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,098/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.69 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8 |
36.21% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
29.31% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
10.34% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
8.62% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
5.17% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
3.45% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
3.45% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
1.72% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
1.72% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 28.07% of Bluetooth Software.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Acer |
24.14% |
|
| Lenovo |
20.69% |
|
| ASUS |
18.39% |
|
| Sony |
18.39% |
|
| Dell |
13.79% |
|
| Toshiba |
2.30% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
1.15% |
|
| Samsung |
1.15% |
|
