Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
(Note, Microsoft Corporation publishes each variation of this file with the same version, but the hashes are unique.)
Relationships
Parent process
Related files
 PE file structure
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Import table
advapi32.dll
SetServiceStatus, StartServiceCtrlDispatcherW, RegCreateKeyExW, RegOpenKeyExW, RegQueryValueExW, RegSetValueExW, LogonUserW, RegCloseKey, RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerExW
kernel32.dll
GetLastError, lstrlenW, CloseHandle, SetEvent, GetSystemTime, GetComputerNameW, CreateEventW, CreateDirectoryW, WaitForSingleObject, CreateIoCompletionPort, HeapSetInformation, UnhandledExceptionFilter, GetCurrentProcess, TerminateProcess, GetSystemTimeAsFileTime, GetCurrentProcessId, GetCurrentThreadId, GetTickCount, QueryPerformanceCounter, GetModuleHandleA, RtlUnwind, OutputDebugStringA, InterlockedCompareExchange, Sleep, InterlockedExchange, SetUnhandledExceptionFilter
logging.dll
LoggingInit, LoggingGetCore
msvcrt.dll
DllMain
rdpcorewlc.dll
RDPAPI_CreateInstance
wtsapi32.dll
WTSQuerySessionInformationW, WTSFreeMemory
wlcrasvc.exe
Windows Live Mesh by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 15.4.5722.2 |
| MD5: | 6067acef367e79914af628fa1e9b5330 |
| SHA1: | 7ab1d97231aeb75bba9c962822a767c5dc7dce7a |
| SHA256: | 491a705267b48c103e00b26bbd21fa8829db03a88343cbc27264cee5de8c8def |
What is wlcrasvc.exe?
With the remote connections feature in Windows Live Mesh, you can work on your computer from a computer in another location. For example, you can connect from your work computer to your home computer and access all of your programs and files as if you were in front of your computer at home. Before you can connect to a computer remotely, you need to allow remote connections to it in Windows Live Mesh. All remote connections are encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
About wlcrasvc.exe (from Microsoft Corporation)
“With Windows Live Mesh and the Devices website, you can keep up-to-date copies of documents, photos, and other files on all of your computers, whether PC or Mac. Sync your folders to the 5 GB of free ”
Details
| File name: | wlcrasvc.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows Live Mesh |
| Description: | Windows Live Mesh Remote Desktop Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\windows live\mesh\wlcrasvc.exe |
| Original name: | Windows Live Mesh Remote Desktop Service |
| File version: | 15.4.5722.2 |
| Size: | 49.84 KB (51,040 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Monday, December 7, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, March 7, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.218900 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | 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 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...
Remote Service is part of the Windows Live Essentials suite of applications, is primarily a tool for keeping your files, folders and bookmarks synchronized between multiple machines and Microsoft's own SkyDrive online storage service. But it can also provide remote users with access to their local PC; similar in function to Remote Desktop.
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'wlcrasvc' (Windows Live Mesh remote connections service)
- 'wlcrasvc'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00264656% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00176909% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00087747% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 125 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 129/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 26.4 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 9.69 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 6.76 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 26.4 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 104.38 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 105.75 MB | |
| Working set: | 6.95 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 9.78 MB | |
| Page faults: | 14,050/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 3 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 15 | |
| Handles: | 280 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\windows live\mesh\wlcrasvc.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | wlcrasvc |
| Display name: | Windows Live Mesh remote connections service |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
63.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
9.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
7.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
7.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
4.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
2.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium N |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 51.00% of Windows Live Mesh.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
20.00% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
18.97% |
|
| Toshiba |
18.62% |
|
| ASUS |
13.10% |
|
| Acer |
10.00% |
|
| Sony |
8.97% |
|
| Lenovo |
4.14% |
|
| Samsung |
1.72% |
|
| NEC |
1.38% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
1.03% |
|
| American Megatrends |
0.69% |
|
| Medion |
0.69% |
|
| Sahara |
0.34% |
|
| Packard Bell |
0.34% |
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