WLSync.exe
Windows Live Mesh by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 15.4.3555.0308 |
| MD5: | 5df19a45f9bcb2f3c7c14bca2e931a39 |
| SHA1: | 39a75a92feb1c0bc515184b72eaefee333c43535 |
| SHA256: | 400c5da2a67c36441c642062f150d03ef9cdf50f3014c0916b50cdd0fda1e54b |
About WLSync.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 ”
Overview
wlsync.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. 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). 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: | wlsync.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows Live Mesh |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\windows live\mesh\wlsync.exe |
| File version: | 15.4.3555.0308 |
| Size: | 1.38 MB (1,449,824 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 |
| 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...”
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'WLSync' → "C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Mesh\WLSync.exe" /background
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00178182% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00058273% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00119909% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 31,676,289 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 318,031/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 19.08 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 23.74 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 3.52 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 19.08 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 146.39 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 151.53 MB | |
| Working set: | 9.44 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 28.32 MB | |
| Page faults: | 49,580/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 251 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 1.07 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 1.57 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 30/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 28 | |
| Handles: | 616 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 50 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 54 | |
| GUI USER count: | 51 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 56 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00848748% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00268260% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00580488% | |
| CPU cycles: | 115,850/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.23 MB | |
| WLSync.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00318297% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00235558% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00082739% | |
| CPU cycles: | 38,544/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.4 MB | |
| MSVCR90.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00303631% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00054365% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00249267% | |
| CPU cycles: | 44,575/sec | |
| Memory: | 652 KB | |
| LivePlatform.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00102827% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00051107% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00051720% | |
| CPU cycles: | 26,272/sec | |
| Memory: | 1024 KB | |
| ole32.dll (Microsoft OLE for Windows by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001077% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000275% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000802% | |
| CPU cycles: | 958/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.36 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Professional |
33.33% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
33.33% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
16.67% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
16.67% |
|
Distribution by country
Japan installs about 50.00% of Windows Live Mesh.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| NEC |
66.67% |
|
| Acer |
33.33% |
|
