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DriverBooster.exe
Driver Booster by IObit Information Technology (Signed)
| Version: | 1.4.0.61 |
| MD5: | 68017dddaef60ad5a056c6ba34d44fec |
| SHA1: | 779371da90c5552e0c3eb0c28897f1364848e4c3 |
Overview
driverbooster.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is an auto-starting process that used the Windows Task Scheduler service to load when the user logs into Windows (sometimes this is required to bypass the UAC protection). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Driver Booster published by IObit, Driver Booster from IObit and Driver Booster by IObit. The file is digitally signed by IObit Information Technology which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | driverbooster.exe |
| Publisher: | IObit |
| Product name: | Driver Booster |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\iobit\driver booster\driverbooster.exe |
| File version: | 1.4.0.61 |
| Product version: | 1.4 |
| Size: | 3.62 MB (3,796,800 bytes) |
| Build date: | 5/8/2014 8:47 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | IObit Information Technology |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“Outdated drivers may heavily affect your PC performance and lead to system crashes. Driver Booster scans and identifies outdated drivers automatically, and downloads and installs the right update for you with just ONE click, saving you loads of time. Moreover, it's specially designed to tweak drivers for best gaming performance. It's the right tool to protect your PC from hardware failures, conflicts, and system crashes.”
Behaviors
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
- Login entry path '\Driver Booster Startup'
Scheduled tasks
- The job 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (AJay)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (AJay)'
- The task 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (Ken)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (Ken)'
- The job 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (John)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (John)'
- The job 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (MAHMOUD)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (MAHMOUD)'
- The job 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (Aditya)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (Aditya)'
- The task 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (Doug Finnell)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (Doug Finnell)'
- The job 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (Moose)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (Moose)'
- The task 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (luckyjstar90)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (luckyjstar90)'
- The task 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (Nick)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (Nick)'
- The task 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (t)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (t)'
- The job 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (Pluto)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (Pluto)'
- The task 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (Felhasználó)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (Felhasználó)'
- The task 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (janice)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (janice)'
- The job 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (Derek)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (Derek)'
- The task 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (curtis)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (curtis)'
- The job 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (SYSTEM)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (SYSTEM)'
- The task 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (Maura)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (Maura)'
- The task 'Driver Booster SkipUAC (Q)' runs in the path '\Driver Booster SkipUAC (Q)'
- The job 'Driver Booster Startup' runs on logon in the path 'C:\WINDOWS\Tasks\Driver Booster Startup.job'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00143445% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00048132% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00095313% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 832,219 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,534,529/sec | |
| Context switches: | 86/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 84.95 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 59.88 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.35 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 84.95 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 223.41 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 315.16 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.68 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 169.45 MB | |
| Page faults: | 101,925/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 64.71 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 4/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 34.66 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 130 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 6/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 204 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 828 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 847 | |
| GUI USER count: | 53 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 56 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | High |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\iobit\driver booster\driverbooster.exe" /startup
- "C:\Program Files\iobit\driver booster\driverbooster.exe"
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | taskeng.exe (Task Scheduler Engine by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
32.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
22.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
10.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
10.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
7.50% |
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| Windows 8 |
7.50% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
5.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
2.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 62.50% of Driver Booster.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
48.15% |
|
| Acer |
16.67% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
7.41% |
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| ASUS |
7.41% |
|
| Sony |
3.70% |
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| MSI |
3.70% |
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| Lenovo |
3.70% |
|
| Toshiba |
3.70% |
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| Samsung |
1.85% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
1.85% |
|
| American Megatrends |
1.85% |
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