cisvc.exe
Content Index service by Microsoft
| Version: | 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) |
| MD5: | 745d20b75b3bdda545022625ed5dbb1b |
| SHA1: | 7298389475912d9e8479cbaea3312d8a02f9b3a5 |
| SHA256: | 01f0cb61a8ba7dc48131a42d381bea833e8b8282f9cc63bece759f4030d6a595 |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
What is cisvc.exe?
Using the Find dialog in the client applications, you can perform a full content search for a text string. This enables you to search throughout a vault for a specific text string within a known file type, as well as file properties. The Content Indexing Service must be turned on to perform full content searching in any of the clients. By default, textual content is not indexed.
Overview
cisvc.exe runs as a service under the name Indexdienst (CISVC) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access) as a shared service. This version is designed to run on Windows Vista and is compiled as a 32 bit program.
Details
| File name: | cisvc.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Content Index service |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\cisvc.exe |
| File version: | 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) |
| Product version: | 6.0.6000.16386 |
| Size: | 11 KB (11,264 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 4.217861 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' as a shared service by the Service Host (svchost.exe)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00012982% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006672% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00006310% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 62 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 11,099/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.79 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 1.08 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 158 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.79 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 45.69 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 46.05 MB | |
| Working set: | 208 KB | |
| Working set (peak): | 3.89 MB | |
| Page faults: | 69,446/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 72 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 3 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 4 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 2/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 2 | |
| Handles: | 91 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | C:\Windows\System32\cisvc.exe |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | CISVC |
| Display name: | Indexdienst |
| Description: | “@%systemroot%\system32\CISVC.EXE,-2” |
| Type: | Win32ShareProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| CISVC.EXE (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00012489% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006153% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00006336% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,662/sec | |
| Memory: | 24 KB | |
| ADVAPI32.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001825% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001460% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000365% | |
| CPU cycles: | 5,454/sec | |
| Memory: | 792 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
67.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
18.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
10.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
4.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 35.20% of Content Index service.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
29.51% |
|
| ASUS |
12.30% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
9.43% |
|
| Toshiba |
9.02% |
|
| American Megatrends |
8.61% |
|
| Intel |
7.38% |
|
| Acer |
4.92% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
4.92% |
|
| Compaq |
4.92% |
|
| Sahara |
3.69% |
|
| Lenovo |
1.64% |
|
| Gateway |
1.64% |
|
| Samsung |
1.23% |
|
| Alienware |
0.82% |
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