Should I block it?
60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
Relationships
Child process
Related files
updater.exe
AcerCloud by Acer Incorporated (Signed)
| Version: | 2.2.2018.0 |
| MD5: | 9741f4d7fc9dcebb54a331222f14522c |
| SHA1: | 1a3f29994daf50f2b129e40c735250ee0ca16858 |
What is updater.exe?
Acer Cloud is the software updater program which runs in the background of Windows and automatically starts up when your PC boots. It checks for software udpates and automatically downloads and installs them if found. The updater will check for updates remotely and install them based on an internal schedule.
Overview
updater.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. 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). This is typically installed with the program AcerCloud Portal published by Acer Incorporated. The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). The file is digitally signed by Acer Incorporated which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | updater.exe |
| Publisher: | Acer Incorporated |
| Product name: | AcerCloud |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\acer\acer cloud\updater.exe |
| Original name: | ACPanel.exe |
| File version: | 2.2.2018.0 |
| Size: | 10.55 MB (11,064,904 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Acer Incorporated |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Thursday, September 2, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Friday, September 13, 2013 |
| 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
“With AcerCloud you can use all your content, anywhere, all the time on every device. So download your favorite music at home and listen to it on your phone. Get inspired on the go and work with it at the office. Prepare your presentation on your desktop and blow your clients away from your tablet. Download your movies at home and finish watching it on the go. Manage all your photos taken from your Android devices or imported from your d...”
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'AcerCloud' → C:\Program Files\Acer\Acer Cloud\updater.exe
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00185457% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00088038% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00097419% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 13,586 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 66/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 64.2 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 63.43 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 62.22 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 64.2 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 369.02 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 388.36 MB | |
| Working set: | 62.67 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 84.2 MB | |
| Page faults: | 45,504/min | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 20 | |
| Handles: | 972 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 66 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 69 | |
| GUI USER count: | 91 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 98 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| updater.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.02343883% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01303884% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01039999% | |
| CPU cycles: | 914,641/sec | |
| Context switches: | 8/sec | |
| Memory: | 10.65 MB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00048340% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00048340% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,020/sec | |
| Memory: | 276 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 8 |
66.67% |
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| Windows 8 Pro |
33.33% |
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Distribution by country
United Kingdom installs about 66.67% of AcerCloud.
