Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Relationships
Parent process
Related files
ehExtHost.exe
Media Center Extensibility Host by Microsoft
| Version: | 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623) |
| MD5: | 2871d1a185da910ee0376ce2eacad85c |
| SHA1: | 4d988ba15c9d411f588e38ce7924ad5ea53320b6 |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
Overview
ehexthost.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
ehshell.exe (Windows Media Center by Microsoft). The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). and is compiled as a 64 bit program.
Details
| File name: | ehexthost.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Media Center Extensibility Host |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\windows\ehome\ehexthost.exe |
| File version: | 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623) |
| Product version: | 6.3.9600.16384 |
| Size: | 127.5 KB (130,560 bytes) |
| Build date: | 8/21/2013 8:50 PM |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00031227% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00024756% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00006471% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 9,349 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,097,440/sec | |
| Context switches: | 7/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 48.6 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 93.2 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 710.67 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 48.6 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 826.27 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 849.5 MB | |
| Working set: | 8.65 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 95.41 MB | |
| Page faults: | 431,539/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 291.84 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 124/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 352.05 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 53/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 1.02 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 33/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 13 | |
| Handles: | 1391 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 22 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 59 | |
| GUI USER count: | 8 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 9 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\windows\ehome\ehexthost.exe" 6236 4438e363-123c-413d-a2b7-c56b7296d4df 12 false false false
- "C:\windows\ehome\ehexthost.exe" 6236 2c61b346-fba8-4407-860b-eb157b07ecbb 7 false false false
- "C:\windows\ehome\ehexthost.exe" 6236 6d37db08-a4e6-40b9-8dc5-62110b65c8fd 6 false false false
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | ehshell.exe (Windows Media Center by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| ehExtHost.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.03235687% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00331279% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02904408% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,000,755/sec | |
| Context switches: | 4/sec | |
| Memory: | 152 KB | |
| msvcrt.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00205887% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00189873% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00016013% | |
| CPU cycles: | 67,852/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 668 KB | |
| clr.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00039099% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00024325% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00014774% | |
| CPU cycles: | 21,952/sec | |
| Memory: | 9.48 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
100.00% |
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