sidebar.exe
Windows Sidebar by Microsoft
| Version: | 6.0.6001.18000 (longhorn_rtm.080118-1840) |
| MD5: | 9c5a0f070196b601d629f5ba9aa921f8 |
| SHA1: | 42bc13d7022f22f44a2257634624e862cd53096a |
| SHA256: | bb77bad24b44a3cb32cd1facb758e347be2f5c49c11e494797635d741867af2b |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
What is sidebar.exe?
Gadgets are simple mini-applications that give users fast access to personally relevant information and simple tasks—without getting in the way. For example, the Weather Gadget provides real-time information that is available at a glance, and the CPU Meter Gadget provides system information that users are interested in monitoring. Gadgets are part of the desktop, like the Start button, taskbar, and notification area. Unlike normal windows, they aren't represented with a taskbar button. In Window
About sidebar.exe (from Microsoft)
“Gadgets put information and fun—like news, pictures, games, and the phases of the moon—right on your desktop. In Windows Vista, gadgets were corralled in the Sidebar. Windows 7 sets them free on the s”
Details
| File name: | sidebar.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows Sidebar |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\windows sidebar\sidebar.exe |
| Original name: | sidebar.EXE.MUI |
| File version: | 6.0.6001.18000 (longhorn_rtm.080118-1840) |
| Product version: | 1.0.6001.18000 |
| Size: | 1.48 MB (1,555,968 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Sidebar' → C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe /autoRun
Network connections
[TCP] a23-73-180-136.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (23.73.180.136:80)
[UDP] listens on port 60561
[UDP] listens on port 59373
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00753951% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00302970% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00450981% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 26,720 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,419,116/sec | |
| Context switches: | 36/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 17.22 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 33.85 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 21.67 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 17.22 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 166.46 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 170.87 MB | |
| Working set: | 30.01 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 34.85 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,861,338/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 3.62 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 3/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 44 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 7.97 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 231/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 11 | |
| Handles: | 299 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 46 | |
| GUI USER count: | 34 | |
Process properties
| Tray notification: | Yes |
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\windows sidebar\sidebar.exe" /autorun
- C:\Program Files\windows sidebar\sidebar.exe /autorun
|
| Owner: | User |
| Parent processes: |
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Threads
Averages
| sidebar.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.03026464% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00922744% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02103720% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,487,406/sec | |
| Context switches: | 4/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.51 MB | |
| mshtml.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.01519493% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00190587% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01328906% | |
| CPU cycles: | 712,821/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 17.02 MB | |
| msvcrt.dll (Windows NT CRT DLL by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00037208% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00022914% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00014294% | |
| CPU cycles: | 148,920/sec | |
| Memory: | 624 KB | |
| Wlanapi.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00022626% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00013476% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00009151% | |
| CPU cycles: | 9,762/sec | |
| Memory: | 100 KB | |
| RPCRT4.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00020983% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00010279% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00010704% | |
| CPU cycles: | 9,212/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.26 MB | |
| dxtrans.dll (Windows Internet Explorer by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00004127% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00004127% | |
| CPU cycles: | 568/sec | |
| Memory: | 296 KB | |
| gdiplus.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001575% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001575% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 141/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.11 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 Vista Home Premium |
70.48% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
12.38% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
11.43% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
3.81% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
0.95% |
|
| Windows Vista™ Home Premium |
0.95% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 58.00% of Windows Sidebar.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
34.21% |
|
| Dell |
21.05% |
|
| Sony |
15.79% |
|
| ASUS |
7.89% |
|
| Intel |
5.26% |
|
| Acer |
5.26% |
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| Toshiba |
5.26% |
|
| Gateway |
5.26% |
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