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WindowsPhotoGallery.exe

Windows Photo Gallery by Microsoft

Remove WindowsPhotoGallery.exe
Version:   6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
MD5:   c03ac1fbcd625f93d2c245d97e06f270
SHA1:   152ab465be2e6e3a5224a3d4f9ee7d49d115dbf8
SHA256:   c8b29da440c32b305fdc734dfa02dbb50b6fd47bc94582a8faf86b4674534b35
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.

What is WindowsPhotoGallery.exe?

Windows Photo Gallery is a photo editing software that is a part of Microsoft's Windows Essentials software suite. Windows Photo Gallery provides management, tagging, and searching capabilities for digital photos. It provides an image viewer that can replace the default OS image viewer, and a photo import tool that can be used to acquire photos from a camera or other removable media.

About WindowsPhotoGallery.exe (from Microsoft)

Photo Gallery is part of Windows Essentials, a free download that also includes tools for movies, instant messaging, email, social networking, and more. Photo Gallery includes powerful and easy-to-use

DetailsDetails

File name:WindowsPhotoGallery.exe
Publisher:Microsoft Corporation
Product name:Windows Photo Gallery
Description:Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Typical file path:C:\Program Files\windows photo gallery\windowsphotogallery.exe
Original name:WindowsPhotoGallery.exe.mui
File version:6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Product version:6.0.6000.16386
Size:135.5 KB (138,752 bytes)
Digital DNA
Entropy:6.500369
File packed:No
.NET CLR:No
More details

ResourcesResource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
 
CPU
Total CPU:0.92921316%
0.028634%
Kernel CPU:0.31840614%
0.013761%
User CPU:0.61080702%
0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:1,823 ms/min
100,923,805ms/min
User CPU time:527 ms/min
0 ms/min
Memory
Private memory:12.91 MB
21.59 MB
Private (maximum):24.4 MB
Private (minimum):24.4 MB
Non-paged memory:12.91 MB
21.59 MB
Virtual memory:127.88 MB
140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):134.8 MB
169.69 MB
Working set:24.39 MB
18.61 MB
Working set (peak):30.43 MB
37.95 MB
Page faults:49,628/min
2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:6.82 MB/sec
1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:1,087/sec
343/min
I/O write transfer:199.72 KB/sec
274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:56/sec
227/min
I/O other transfer:2.15 MB/sec
448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:27,330/sec
1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:12
12
Handles:330
600
GUI GDI count:160
103
GUI USER count:122
49

BehaviorsProcess properties

Platform:32-bit
Command line:"C:\Program Files\windows photo gallery\windowsphotogallery.exe"
Owner:User
Parent process:explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft Corporation)

Windows OS versionsDistribution by Windows OS

OS versiondistribution
Windows Vista Ultimate 100.00%
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