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ose.exe
Office Source Engine by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) |
| MD5: | 9de665d0d94b728a764812634b570b82 |
| SHA1: | 86e44c3c6522ef02bbaf59e2c6666f2b15142808 |
| SHA256: | 6285740eba56281860e77b51b40dbd730173d5257718553852212f374c10eeed |
Overview
ose.exe runs as a service under the name Office Source Engine (ose) within the local user context. It is installed with a couple of know programs including DeviceManager published by eInstruction and DeviceManager published by eInstruction. The file is digitally signed by Microsoft Corporation. This version is installed on Windows 8 and is compiled as a 64 bit program.
Details
| File name: | ose.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Office Source Engine |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\microsoft shared\source engine\ose.exe |
| File version: | 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) |
| Product version: | 6.2.9200.16384 |
| Size: | 1.46 MB (1,535,488 bytes) |
| Build date: | 7/26/2012 1:31 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Monday, December 7, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, March 7, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 6.564145 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'ose' (Office Source Engine)
- 'ose64' (Office 64 Source Engine)
- ose64
- 'ose'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00283219% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00026326% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00256893% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 10,078 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 59/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 6.5 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 17.29 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 15.68 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 6.5 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 118.49 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 131.16 MB | |
| Working set: | 17.27 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 17.33 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 14 | |
| Handles: | 277 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 62 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 67 | |
| GUI USER count: | 35 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 41 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | High |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe" |
| Owner: | User |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | ose |
| Display name: | Office Source Engine |
| Description: | “Saves installation files used for updates and repairs and is required for the downloading of Setup updates and Watson error reports.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | atbroker.exe (Windows Assistive Technology Manager by Microsoft) |
Threads
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
34.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
19.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
7.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
6.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
6.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
5.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
5.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
3.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
2.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8 |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise N |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
0.50% |
|
| 21 other Windows OS version |
Distribution by country
United States installs about 30.15% of Office Source Engine.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
24.72% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
15.36% |
|
| ASUS |
12.73% |
|
| Lenovo |
11.24% |
|
| Toshiba |
10.49% |
|
| Acer |
9.74% |
|
| Intel |
4.49% |
|
| Compaq |
3.00% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
2.62% |
|
| Samsung |
1.87% |
|
| Sony |
1.50% |
|
| American Megatrends |
0.75% |
|
| NEC |
0.75% |
|
| Sahara |
0.37% |
|
| Alienware |
0.37% |
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