ClassicStartMenu.exe
Classic Shell by Ivaylo Beltchev (Signed)
| Version: | 4, 1, 0, 0 |
| MD5: | 690eb331346d7adfda18e50042dea4b4 |
| SHA1: | d8689e33148b4451910920412de2306475060290 |
Overview
classicstartmenu.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. It is set to be start when the PC boots and any user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the all users under the local machine). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Classic Shell published by IvoSoft, Snap.Do from ReSoft Ltd. and Snap.Do by ReSoft Ltd.. The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). The file is digitally signed by Ivaylo Beltchev which was issued by the StartCom Ltd. certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | classicstartmenu.exe |
| Publisher: | IvoSoft |
| Product name: | Classic Shell |
| Description: | Classic Start Menu |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\classic shell\classicstartmenu.exe |
| File version: | 4, 1, 0, 0 |
| Size: | 158.19 KB (161,984 bytes) |
| Build date: | 4/20/2014 9:17 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Ivaylo Beltchev |
| Authority (CA): | StartCom Ltd. |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, July 7, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| 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
Office-Addin is part of the AcerCloud platform and is designed to integrate with Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and to backup files to the cloud.
Dell Edoc Viewer is pre-installed with various Dell PCs and is part of the Dell support system. Dell eDoc Viewer or Dell Document Viewer is a display tool that collects and displays all documents hardware and software installed on your Dell computer. This display shows documents in HTML and PDF formats and also supports many other document formats.
“Classic Shell is a collection of features that were available in older versions of Windows but are removed from Vista and Windows 7. It has a classic start menu for Windows 7. It adds a toolbar for Windows Explorer and supports a variety of smaller features. Classic Shell adds some missing features to Windows 7 and Vista like a classic start menu, toolbar for Explorer and others.”
This is a potentially unwanted web browser extension this is distributed and installed by PINWID LTD, ReSoft LTD., MY POP SHOP LTD and Linkury. It will display advertisements including banners and popups in the user's web browser.
Snap.Do is a web browser addin/toolbar (depending on the browser it is installed within) that plugs into all the major web browsers including Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox. Snap.Do provides the standard generic toolbar features such as social integration for Facebook and Twitter as well as others. It also leverages the SimularSites engine to provide "recommendations". On installation it will modify the browser's home page and se...
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Classic Start Menu' → C:\Program Files\Classic Shell\ClassicStartMenu.exe
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00037834% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00016124% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00021710% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 198 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,160/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.9 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 8.17 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 5.61 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.9 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 99.02 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 102.07 MB | |
| Working set: | 5.68 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 8.48 MB | |
| Page faults: | 4,088/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 129 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 5 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 2 | |
| Handles: | 140 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 10 | |
| GUI USER count: | 4 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 5 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| KeyCrypt64(1).dll (AntiLogger Free by Zemana Ltd) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00821184% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00313347% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00507838% | |
| CPU cycles: | 881,278/sec | |
| Memory: | 104 KB | |
| ClassicStartMenu.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00011145% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00011145% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,128/sec | |
| Memory: | 176 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8 Pro |
25.93% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
18.52% |
|
| Windows 8 |
18.52% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
14.81% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
11.11% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
7.41% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
3.70% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 48.15% of Classic Shell.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Lenovo |
22.86% |
|
| Dell |
22.86% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
17.14% |
|
| Toshiba |
17.14% |
|
| ASUS |
5.71% |
|
| Medion |
5.71% |
|
| American Megatrends |
2.86% |
|
| Samsung |
2.86% |
|
| Acer |
2.86% |
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