Should I block it?
45% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
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DriverTool.exe
Driver Tool by PC Drivers HeadQuarters (Signed)
| Version: | 8.1.0.3 |
| MD5: | 922921473c945f456481e8393e115071 |
| SHA1: | c60f2627a5ffc97a238300767538df627a55a9a0 |
| SHA256: | 76dcfb94cc6c0751ea04001d75b50a9dca7fa03db97a7654e5218a3409bb17d0 |
What is DriverTool.exe?
Driver Tool is used to locate new versions of drivers that are already installed on the computer system. Drivers that currently have upgrades available are shown to the user, who can proceed with the upgrade with a simple click.
About DriverTool.exe (from PC Drivers HeadQuarters)
“At PC Drivers HeadQuarters we have distilled 10 years of PC hardware expertise into our driver identification software, Driver Detective. Driver Detective was created to save you time and remove any g”
Details
| File name: | drivertool.exe |
| Publisher: | PC Drivers Headquarters |
| Product name: | Driver Tool |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\driver tool\driver tool\drivertool.exe |
| File version: | 8.1.0.3 |
| Size: | 3.38 MB (3,546,992 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | PC Drivers HeadQuarters |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Sunday, April 3, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, April 21, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Driver Tool' → C:\Program Files\Driver Tool\Driver Tool\DriverTool.exe /applicationModC:systemTray /showWelcomC:false
Scheduled tasks
- The job 'Driver Tool-RTMUpdater' runs weekly in the path '\Driver Tool-RTMUpdater'
- The task 'Driver Tool-RTMScan' in the path '\Driver Tool-RTMScan'
- The job 'Driver Tool-RTMRules' runs weekly in the path '\Driver Tool-RTMRules'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.07248033% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.04520270% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02727763% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 764 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 13,094,045/sec | |
| Context switches: | 8/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 67.3 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 78.41 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 63.69 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 67.3 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 650.28 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 660.56 MB | |
| Working set: | 78.06 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 78.9 MB | |
| Page faults: | 44,178/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 894.09 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 45/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 87.83 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 40/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 9.15 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 891/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 18 | |
| Handles: | 592 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 48 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 50 | |
| GUI USER count: | 82 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 83 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| DriverTool.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.31499409% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.07862929% | |
| User CPU: | 0.23636480% | |
| CPU cycles: | 5,323,336/sec | |
| Context switches: | 5/sec | |
| Memory: | 3.4 MB | |
| mscorwks.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00511173% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00138122% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00373051% | |
| CPU cycles: | 49,291/sec | |
| Memory: | 9.61 MB | |
| rasman.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00234880% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00234880% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,137/sec | |
| Memory: | 112 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 Home Premium |
100.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of Driver Tool.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
100.00% |
|
