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HPWA_Main.exe
HP Wireless Assistant by Hewlett-Packard Company (Signed)
| Version: | 4.0.3.2 |
| MD5: | 61e3f63855657a3d4f7eb6d75181dbae |
| SHA1: | 0c936cf0b7ff945d9d44a4208369d65c82d2db48 |
| SHA256: | b8c88dad779b51685bb0a5decd3492fec72af38ada184848ae91e04baf31cf73 |
Overview
hpwa_main.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. This is typically installed with the program HP Wireless Assistant published by Hewlett-Packard and is usually factory installed by the OEM. The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). The file is digitally signed by Hewlett-Packard Company which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | hpwa_main.exe |
| Publisher: | Hewlett-Packard |
| Product name: | HP Wireless Assistant |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\hewlett-packard\hp wireless assistant\hpwa_main.exe |
| File version: | 4.0.3.2 |
| Size: | 354.55 KB (363,064 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Hewlett-Packard Company |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, December 19, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
This program contains the HP Wireless Assistant for the supported notebook models and operating systems. The HP Wireless Assistant reports the power state and Microsoft Windows Device Manager status of integrated wireless devices, alerts the user when the status of a device changes, and enables the user to turn integrated wireless devices on and off.
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.01283082% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00625894% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00657188% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 2,808,018 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 181,518/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 58.6 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 57.54 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 56.73 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 58.6 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 663.9 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 671.71 MB | |
| Working set: | 56.76 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 57.95 MB | |
| Page faults: | 19,089/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 2.37 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 72 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 70 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 8/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 17 | |
| Handles: | 380 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 65 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 66 | |
| GUI USER count: | 30 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 30 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\hewlett-packard\hp wireless assistant\hpwa_main.exe" /hidden |
| Owner: | User |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
100.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 50.00% of HP Wireless Assistant.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
100.00% |
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