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60% of PCs block this file from running.
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HelpLibAgent.exe
Microsoft Help Viewer by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 1.0.40219.1 built by: SP1Rel |
| MD5: | d138315d596d1cb0ad62eb691d2d84d7 |
| SHA1: | 8cfad61b87960fc203ecc2f45301bb342394e5c0 |
| SHA256: | e87bde4257e33f4f185dc872e0d7fc0a378741233ea3dd6a2665bfcf44bad1d4 |
What is HelpLibAgent.exe?
Microsoft Help System is the end-to-end help system for content served from MSDN Online or content that you have installed locally. You can use your favorite web browser to view help content online or the Local Help Viewer to view local content.
About HelpLibAgent.exe (from Microsoft Corporation)
“The Local Help Viewer is a Windows-based client application that displays help content when you choose offline (local) help in the Help Library Manager. The Help Library Agent is a tray application th”
Details
| File name: | helplibagent.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Microsoft Help Viewer |
| Description: | HelpLibAgent.exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\microsoft help viewer\v1.0\helplibagent.exe |
| File version: | 1.0.40219.1 built by: SP1Rel |
| Product version: | 1.0.40219.1 |
| Size: | 82.34 KB (84,312 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Monday, December 7, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, March 7, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
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Programs
The following programs will install this file
Microsoft Help Viewer is the offline help system (local help) developed by Microsoft that ships with Visual Studio. The user experience for Microsoft Help Viewer 1.x is that topics can be viewed in any installed web browser – a separate application, such as the Microsoft Document Explorer included with Microsoft Help 2, is not necessary. The browser-based model is meant to provide a more lightweight navigation, downloading, and reading ...
Microsoft Help Viewer is the offline help system (local help) developed by Microsoft that ships with Visual Studio. The user experience for Microsoft Help Viewer 1.x is that topics can be viewed in any installed web browser – a separate application, such as the Microsoft Document Explorer included with Microsoft Help 2, is not necessary. The browser-based model is meant to provide a more lightweight navigation, downloading, and reading ...
Microsoft Help Viewer is the offline help system (local help) developed by Microsoft that ships with Visual Studio. The user experience for Microsoft Help Viewer 1.x is that topics can be viewed in any installed web browser – a separate application, such as the Microsoft Document Explorer included with Microsoft Help 2, is not necessary. The browser-based model is meant to provide a more lightweight navigation, downloading, and reading ...
Microsoft Help Viewer is the offline help system (local help) developed by Microsoft that ships with Visual Studio. The user experience for Microsoft Help Viewer 1.x is that topics can be viewed in any installed web browser – a separate application, such as the Microsoft Document Explorer included with Microsoft Help 2, is not necessary. The browser-based model is meant to provide a more lightweight navigation, downloading, and reading ...
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00004321% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001256% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003065% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 93,484 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 10,770,437/sec | |
| Context switches: | 22/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 53.74 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 69.08 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 67.53 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 53.74 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 623.6 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 641.73 MB | |
| Working set: | 67.52 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 70.31 MB | |
| Page faults: | 16,233,929/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 2.72 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 42 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 85 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 13 | |
| Handles: | 341 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 36 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 39 | |
| GUI USER count: | 21 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 24 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | High |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\microsoft help viewer\v1.0\helplibagent.exe" ms-xhelC:///?product=sqlserver&productversion=110&method=f1&query=vdt.query.subquery%00vdt.querydesigner%00vdt.pane.results&lcid=1033
- "C:\Program Files\microsoft help viewer\v1.0\helplibagent.exe" ms-xhelC:///?product=vs&productversion=100&method=f1&query=designer_system.windows.forms.design.formdocumentdesigner%00boost.frmbase&lcid=1033&targetframeworkmoniker=.netframework,version%3dv3.5&devlang=csharp&launchingapp=vs
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent processes: |
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Threads
Averages
| HelpLibAgent.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.03185851% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.02041569% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01144281% | |
| CPU cycles: | 6,454,053/sec | |
| Context switches: | 11/sec | |
| Memory: | 96 KB | |
| clr.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00059040% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006371% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00052669% | |
| CPU cycles: | 55,500/sec | |
| Memory: | 9.37 MB | |
| gdiplus.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00002336% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00002124% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000212% | |
| CPU cycles: | 389/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.09 MB | |
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 Ultimate |
100.00% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of Microsoft Help Viewer.
