wlcsdk.exe
Windows Live Call by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 14.0.8064.0206 |
| MD5: | 385806015adb90796a529201dbff15a5 |
| SHA1: | b0219de4597c8bcaa44f6d7725c45a22c3217e97 |
| SHA256: | 1d846a7ef8a5d881d5e453ed7a0fd9fc307c0ac4027dc454ef62b23730f49191 |
What is wlcsdk.exe?
Windows Live Call was part of Microsoft's Windows Live services. It integrated into Windows Live Messenger to allow users to make PC-to-PC and PC-to-Phone voice and video calls. Microsoft partnered with telecommunication companies around the world to allow users to use a PC equipped with a microphone and speakers and a high speed Internet connection to call almost any regular telephone anywhere in the world.
Overview
wlcsdk.exe has been configured with a firewall exception which allows both inbound and outbound network communication without being blocked. It is installed with a couple of know programs including Windows Live Essentials published by Microsoft Corporation, Windows Live Essentials from Microsoft Corporation and Windows Live Essentials by Microsoft Corporation. The file is digitally signed by Microsoft Corporation.
Details
| File name: | wlcsdk.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows Live Call |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\windows live\messenger\wlcsdk.exe |
| File version: | 14.0.8064.0206 |
| Size: | 569.36 KB (583,024 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Monday, December 7, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, March 7, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .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 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 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 Call was part of Microsoft's Windows Live services. It integrated into Windows Live Messenger to allow users to make PC-to-PC and PC-to-Phone voice and video calls. The Phone Call service utilized Windows Live Messenger and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology to provide users an inexpensive way to make domestic and international phone calls from a computer.
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 Messenger is an instant messaging client connects to Microsoft Messenger service. Microsoft announced that Windows Live Messenger will be retired in favor of Skype. Windows Live Messenger's album viewer is based on Windows Photo Gallery and provides users a photo viewing experience for photo albums shared via SkyDrive and Facebook.
Behaviors
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program\Windows Live\Messenger\wlcsdk.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\wlcsdk.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\wlcsdk.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\wlcsdk.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\wlcsdk.exe'
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
97.67% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
2.33% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 40.70% of Windows Live Call.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
47.27% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
7.27% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
7.27% |
|
| Acer |
7.27% |
|
| Gateway |
7.27% |
|
| Intel |
7.27% |
|
| American Megatrends |
7.27% |
|
| Toshiba |
7.27% |
|
| Sahara |
1.82% |
|
