wlcomm.exe
Windows Live Communications Platform by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 15.4.3555.0308 |
| MD5: | a28574e9659180af96c8178fc1d722d8 |
| SHA1: | 722497f9ab00e908f67f5db13043ac530802ed4c |
| SHA256: | f54de21dd1f504fc4a53654008bc4ba606a54340af920f8b0e3de6da5da304dd |
Overview
wlcomm.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Windows Live Essentials published by Microsoft Corporation, Windows Live from Microsoft Corporation and Windows Live by Microsoft Corporation. The file is digitally signed by Microsoft Corporation.
Details
| File name: | wlcomm.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows Live Communications Platform |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\windows live\contacts\wlcomm.exe |
| File version: | 15.4.3555.0308 |
| Size: | 24.86 KB (25,456 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Sunday, July 12, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, July 3, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Windows Live Essentials is a suite of freeware applications by Microsoft that aims to offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing, and security services. Essentials programs are designed to integrate well with each other, with Microsoft Windows, and with other Microsoft web-based services such as SkyDrive and Outlook.com, so that they operate as a seamless whole.
Windows Live "is a way to extend the Windows user experience". Windows Vista provides a link in its user interface to download Windows Live Messenger, and Windows 7 saw the removal of applications such as Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker and replaced with the Windows Essentials suite, a software package that allows the downloading and installation of similar offerings from Windows Live. Windows Live offers int...
“Windows Live is the former collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft; part of their software plus services platform. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also client-side binary applications that require installation. There are three ways in which Windows Live services are offered: Windows Essentials applications, web services, and mobile servi...”
Windows Live Messenger (Windows Live Communications Platform) is an instant messaging platform. Windows Live Messenger uses the Microsoft Notification Protocol (MSNP) over TCP (and optionally over HTTP to deal with proxies) to connect to Microsoft Messenger service—a service offered on port 1863.
Network connections
[TCP] db3msgr6011505.gateway.messenger.live.com (157.56.192.146:1863)
[TCP] 157.55.157.101:443
[TCP] bn1msgr2011201.gateway.edge.messenger.live.com (134.170.24.118:1863)
[TCP] a23-67-216-124.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (23.67.216.124:443)
[TCP] baymsg1020326.gateway.edge.messenger.live.com (64.4.61.218:1863)
[TCP] 65.54.240.231:80
[TCP] db3msgr5010718.gateway.messenger.live.com (157.56.126.38:1863)
[TCP] baymsgr2011702.phx.gbl (64.4.46.96:1863)
[TCP] db3msgr5011403.gateway.messenger.live.com (157.56.126.151:1863)
[TCP] db3msgr5011204.gateway.messenger.live.com (157.56.126.120:1863)
[TCP] sn1msg3010711.sn1.gateway.edge.messenger.live.com (65.55.71.35:1863)
[TCP] sn1msg3020323.sn1.gateway.edge.messenger.live.com (65.55.71.215:1863)
[TCP] baymsg1020211.gateway.edge.messenger.live.com (64.4.61.161:1863)
[UDP] listens on port 65297
[UDP] listens on port 59598
[UDP] listens on port 62909
[UDP] listens on port 62619
[UDP] listens on port 51150
[UDP] listens on port 52947
[UDP] listens on port 55722
[UDP] listens on port 50186
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.01140651% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00464664% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00675987% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 7,187,769 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 297,151/sec | |
| Context switches: | 10/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 17.3 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 23.44 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 11.23 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 17.3 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 160.98 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 178.78 MB | |
| Working set: | 15.1 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 26.53 MB | |
| Page faults: | 63,355/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 21.01 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 14.6 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 11/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 332 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 15/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 15 | |
| Handles: | 545 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 12 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 12 | |
| GUI USER count: | 29 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 39 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| wlcomm.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.02314145% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00179545% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02134600% | |
| CPU cycles: | 386,458/sec | |
| Memory: | 100 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.01459840% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01006038% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00453802% | |
| CPU cycles: | 296,272/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
| wow64.dll (Win32 Emulation on NT64 by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00610629% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00354480% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00256150% | |
| CPU cycles: | 140,294/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| ole32.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00309372% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00107688% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00201685% | |
| CPU cycles: | 76,884/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.36 MB | |
| lmcdata.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00237021% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00093031% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00143991% | |
| CPU cycles: | 112,332/sec | |
| Memory: | 696 KB | |
| MSVCR90.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00047987% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000264% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00047723% | |
| CPU cycles: | 5,114/sec | |
| Memory: | 652 KB | |
| abssm.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00013350% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001292% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00012059% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,757/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.03 MB | |
| wow64cpu.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00010738% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006183% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00004555% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,472/sec | |
| Memory: | 32 KB | |
| mswsock.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00009886% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00009267% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000619% | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,156/sec | |
| Memory: | 240 KB | |
| ESENT.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001674% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001410% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000264% | |
| CPU cycles: | 624/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.64 MB | |
| WININET.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001055% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000527% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000527% | |
| CPU cycles: | 804/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.72 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 7 Home Premium |
47.62% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
21.43% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
7.14% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
7.14% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
7.14% |
|
| Windows 7 Enterprise |
2.38% |
|
| Windows 8 |
2.38% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
2.38% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.38% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 26.19% of Windows Live Communications Platform.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Toshiba |
20.69% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
20.69% |
|
| ASUS |
13.79% |
|
| Acer |
13.79% |
|
| NEC |
6.90% |
|
| Sony |
6.90% |
|
| Dell |
6.90% |
|
| Samsung |
3.45% |
|
| American Megatrends |
3.45% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
3.45% |
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