portabledeviceapi.dll
Windows Portable Device API Components by Microsoft
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
Overview
There are 17 versions of portabledeviceapi.dll in the wild, the latest version being 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623). portabledeviceapi.dll is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. A job within the Windows Task Scheduler is added to execute this process of a specific schedule during installation of the program. The average file size is about 553.53 KB. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is less than 0.01% with the maximum memory reaching around 4.05 MB.
What is portabledeviceapi.dll?
Windows Portable Devices (WPD) enables computers to communicate with attached media and storage devices. WPD provides a flexible, robust way for computers to communicate with music players, storage devices, mobile phones, cameras, and many other types of connected devices.
About portabledeviceapi.dll (from Microsoft)
“Applications that are built on WPD can explore a device, send and receive content, and even control the device, for example, take a picture or send a text message. The system is designed to be flexibl”
Details |
File name: | portabledeviceapi.dll |
Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
Product name: | Windows Portable Device API Components |
Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\portabledeviceapi.dll |
Original name: | PortableDeviceApi.dll.mui |
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of portabledeviceapi.dll, select a unique version for details.)
Scheduled tasks
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2951711043-2263491757-4151695161-1007' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2951711043-2263491757-4151695161-1007'
- The task 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2951711043-2263491757-4151695161-1001' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2951711043-2263491757-4151695161-1001'
- The task 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-4176158200-1466959855-571351718-1001' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-4176158200-1466959855-571351718-1001'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-4040762489-3244682431-1063801501-1001' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-4040762489-3244682431-1063801501-1001'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2551057520-2250145211-710920870-500' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2551057520-2250145211-710920870-500'
- The task 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2551057520-2250145211-710920870-1004' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2551057520-2250145211-710920870-1004'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2551057520-2250145211-710920870-1000' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2551057520-2250145211-710920870-1000'
- The task 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2826750528-2419897074-3129009404-1000' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2826750528-2419897074-3129009404-1000'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-525217843-1553881487-934307382-1000' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-525217843-1553881487-934307382-1000'
- The task 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-4204859643-4009438992-3315869148-1001' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-4204859643-4009438992-3315869148-1001'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-544526925-2365737929-737866664-1001' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-544526925-2365737929-737866664-1001'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-1423522360-3395476842-3449966222-1001' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-1423522360-3395476842-3449966222-1001'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-1348193291-787980450-1682719127-1002' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-1348193291-787980450-1682719127-1002'
- The task 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-3068031249-3585345372-4177612788-1001' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-3068031249-3585345372-4177612788-1001'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-704226454-770261699-2520643252-1003' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-704226454-770261699-2520643252-1003'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-704226454-770261699-2520643252-1000' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-704226454-770261699-2520643252-1000'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-3305648521-2958999256-107983701-1002' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-3305648521-2958999256-107983701-1002'
- The task 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-3106996963-4149350076-1505085560-1001' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-3106996963-4149350076-1505085560-1001'
- The task 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-3238138624-3740323638-32874613-1000' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-3238138624-3740323638-32874613-1000'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-960779107-4234841669-3746277116-1001' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-960779107-4234841669-3746277116-1001'
- The task 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2532488852-3633296536-591787847-1002' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-2532488852-3633296536-591787847-1002'
- The job 'SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-748775166-2541677819-3126387625-1000' runs daily in the path '\WPD\SqmUpload_S-1-5-21-748775166-2541677819-3126387625-1000'
All file variations of portabledeviceapi.dll
Distribution by Windows OS
OS version | distribution |
Windows 7 Home Premium |
33.00% |
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Windows 7 Ultimate |
18.25% |
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Windows 8.1 |
11.50% |
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Windows 8 |
7.50% |
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Windows 7 Professional |
6.25% |
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Windows 8.1 Pro |
5.25% |
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Windows Vista Home Premium |
3.25% |
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Windows 8 Pro |
2.50% |
|
Windows 8.1 Single Language |
2.00% |
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Windows 8 Single Language |
2.00% |
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Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.75% |
|
Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
1.25% |
|
Windows 8.1 Pro Preview |
1.25% |
|
Windows Vista Home Basic |
1.25% |
|
Windows 8 Enterprise |
0.75% |
|
Windows Seven Black Edition |
0.50% |
|
Windows 7 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation |
0.25% |
|
Windows Developer Preview |
0.25% |
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Windows 7 Starter |
0.25% |
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Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
0.25% |
|
22 other Windows OS version |
Distribution by country
United States installs about 45.96% of Windows Portable Device API Components.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
PC Manufacturer | distribution |
Dell |
19.96% |
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ASUS |
18.11% |
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Hewlett-Packard |
16.08% |
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Acer |
11.46% |
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Toshiba |
8.50% |
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Lenovo |
7.76% |
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Sony |
6.28% |
|
Intel |
2.96% |
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GIGABYTE |
2.40% |
|
Samsung |
2.22% |
|
Medion |
1.11% |
|
Alienware |
0.74% |
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MSI |
0.74% |
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American Megatrends |
0.74% |
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Gateway |
0.37% |
|
NEC |
0.37% |
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Sahara |
0.18% |
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