wsqmcons.exe
Windows SQM Consolidator by Microsoft
| Version: | 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) |
| MD5: | eb833bb4df2cf5a4a7d1789c3add75dc |
| SHA1: | b45f1f120dff6b8d244641d6f5778cb3b414b21b |
| SHA256: | 2db083127b2659bfa77812b672c697d5a448da5e1e2116b2df6b86b6011f9df2 |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
What is wsqmcons.exe?
(Customer Experience Improvement Program) This scheduled task runs the Wsqmcons.exe program when you install Windows Vista. This scheduled task also runs the Wsqmcons.exe program daily if the user consented to participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program. This program collects and sends usage data to Microsoft. The Wsqmcons.exe program is located in the System32 folder.
About wsqmcons.exe (from Microsoft)
“Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program collects information about how our customers use Microsoft programs and about some of the problems they encounter. Microsoft uses this information to ”
Details
| File name: | wsqmcons.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows SQM Consolidator |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\wsqmcons.exe |
| Original name: | wsqmcons.exe.mui |
| File version: | 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) |
| Product version: | 6.2.9200.16384 |
| Size: | 352.5 KB (360,960 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.407551 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Scheduled tasks
- The job 'OptinNotification' runs on logon in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\OptinNotification'
- The job 'Uploader' in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\Uploader'
- The job 'Consolidator' in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\Consolidator'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\OptinNotification'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\Uploader'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\Consolidator'
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
- Login entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\OptinNotification'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.10412326% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.03588518% | |
| User CPU: | 0.06823809% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 676 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 148,634/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.93 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.6 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.02 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.93 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 58.27 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 59.05 MB | |
| Working set: | 554 KB | |
| Working set (peak): | 6.76 MB | |
| Page faults: | 15,326/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 5 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 18 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 4 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 3 | |
| Handles: | 170 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- C:\Windows\System32\wsqmcons.exe
- C:\Windows\System32\wsqmcons.exe -u
|
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Parent process: | services.exe (by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00060699% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00060699% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 136,330/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.74 MB | |
| wsqmcons.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001718% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001718% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 379/sec | |
| Memory: | 368 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
23.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
23.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
10.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
8.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
6.50% |
|
| Windows 8 |
6.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
5.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
4.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
3.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
2.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 N |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Seven Black Edition |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 46.73% of Windows SQM Consolidator.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
21.79% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
17.12% |
|
| ASUS |
17.12% |
|
| Acer |
12.45% |
|
| Lenovo |
10.89% |
|
| Toshiba |
9.34% |
|
| Sony |
3.89% |
|
| Samsung |
2.33% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
1.95% |
|
| Alienware |
1.56% |
|
| Intel |
1.56% |
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