Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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NeXuS.exe
NeXuS by Winstep Software Technologies
| Version: | 10.09.0920 |
| MD5: | 06a2b66ecdd5b476845c776a9d8c3ecb |
| SHA1: | acf260850d4743f5c50bc4d0f3f7957811697cbc |
| SHA256: | 594cf2ddd4e9eceebd1a53536ab7001e896b0ffab6013c312a98c110a49bd6c8 |
Overview
nexus.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. It is set to be run when the PC boots and the user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the current user).
Details
| File name: | nexus.exe |
| Publisher: | Winstep Software Technologies |
| Product name: | NeXuS |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\winstep\nexus.exe |
| File version: | 10.09.0920 |
| Size: | 12.85 MB (13,473,408 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'NeXuS' → C:\Program Files\Winstep\Nexus.exe autostart
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00082917% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00075663% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00007254% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 103,803 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 6,742,718/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 44.36 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 42.31 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 3.08 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 44.36 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 216.28 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 257.05 MB | |
| Working set: | 21.98 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 42.45 MB | |
| Page faults: | 21,422,999/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 16.92 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 221.47 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 5,167/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 10 | |
| Handles: | 419 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 135 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 207 | |
| GUI USER count: | 119 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 175 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| Nexus.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.24602647% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.09149774% | |
| User CPU: | 0.15452873% | |
| CPU cycles: | 45,713,660/sec | |
| Context switches: | 543/sec | |
| Memory: | 13.03 MB | |
| wow64.dll (Win32 Emulation on NT64 by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00006968% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006968% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,064/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 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 |
30.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
30.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
20.00% |
|
| Windows 8 |
20.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 40.00% of NeXuS.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
30.77% |
|
| Acer |
23.08% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
15.38% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
15.38% |
|
| Toshiba |
15.38% |
|
