WPABALN.exe
Windows WPA Balloon Reminder by Microsoft
Version: | 5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2113) |
MD5: | 90ce97657b3f0b651ee8f438a4ab577e |
SHA1: | 6fef83742d23332e2219f52853e13d7069f9f838 |
SHA256: | 59175ea46e838f2074ee6d8c891ff0d1576d6a456ad1d8df53e25d71d8cae8af |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
What is WPABALN.exe?
This is the system tray balloon popup that you would see if Windows requires activation. Microsoft Product Activation is a form of digital rights management used by Microsoft Corporation in several of its computer software programs, most notably its Windows operating system.
About WPABALN.exe (from Microsoft)
“The goal of Product Activation is to reduce a form of piracy known as "casual copying" or "softlifting". Casual copying is a form of piracy characterized by the sharing of software between people in a”
Details
File name: | wpabaln.exe |
Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
Product name: | Windows WPA Balloon Reminder |
Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\wpabaln.exe |
File version: | 5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2113) |
Product version: | 5.1.2600.5512 |
Size: | 31.5 KB (32,256 bytes) |
Digital DNA |
PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
Entropy: | 5.057932 |
File packed: | No |
Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
.NET CLR: | No |
More details
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
CPU |
Total CPU: | 0.04300178% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.02187112% | |
User CPU: | 0.02113067% | |
Kernel CPU time: | 43,770 ms/min | |
Context switches: | 368/sec | |
Memory |
Private memory: | 1.11 MB | |
Private (maximum): | 3.26 MB | |
Private (minimum): | 2.51 MB | |
Non-paged memory: | 1.11 MB | |
Virtual memory: | 32.18 MB | |
Virtual memory (peak): | 34.97 MB | |
Working set: | 2.53 MB | |
Working set (peak): | 3.3 MB | |
Page faults: | 13,450/min | |
I/O |
I/O read transfer: | 233 Bytes/sec | |
I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
I/O other transfer: | 282 Bytes/sec | |
I/O other operations: | 2/sec | |
Resource allocations |
Threads: | 4 | |
Handles: | 72 | |
GUI GDI count: | 14 | |
GUI USER count: | 6 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
OS version | distribution |
Microsoft Windows XP |
100.00% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 50.00% of Windows WPA Balloon Reminder.