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45% of PCs block this file from running.
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DriverWhiz.exe
Driver Whiz by PC Drivers HeadQuarters (Signed)
| Version: | 8.0.0.69 |
| MD5: | c1317e0644cce76f28bc4aa17529bbef |
| SHA1: | 9551bdcafd2f636a9d8eb013237b768943020569 |
| SHA256: | 38ec9addc4dada39be2d296c6c515e9d208d47be038d7ffa67ede5de93aca0ba |
What is DriverWhiz.exe?
Driver Whiz is used to locate new versions of drivers that are already installed on the computer system. Drivers that currently have upgrades available are shown to the user, who can proceed with the upgrade with a simple click.
About DriverWhiz.exe (from PC Drivers HeadQuarters)
“At PC Drivers HeadQuarters we have distilled 10 years of PC hardware expertise into our driver identification software, Driver Detective. Driver Detective was created to save you time and remove any g”
Details
| File name: | driverwhiz.exe |
| Publisher: | PC Drivers Headquarters |
| Product name: | Driver Whiz |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\driver whiz\driver whiz\driverwhiz.exe |
| File version: | 8.0.0.69 |
| Size: | 3.36 MB (3,527,608 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | PC Drivers HeadQuarters |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Sunday, April 3, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, April 21, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Driver Whiz' → C:\Program Files\Driver Whiz\Driver Whiz\DriverWhiz.exe /applicationModC:systemTray /showWelcomC:false
Scheduled tasks
- Entry path '\Driver Whiz-RTMUpdater'
- Entry path '\Driver Whiz-RTMScan'
- Entry path '\Driver Whiz-RTMRules'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00281585% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00116461% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00165125% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,560 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,552,005/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 51.41 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 63.7 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.48 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 51.41 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 263.13 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 274.76 MB | |
| Working set: | 2.96 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 63.82 MB | |
| Page faults: | 28,930/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 27.33 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 2.65 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 181 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 42/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 21 | |
| Handles: | 612 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 48 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 49 | |
| GUI USER count: | 83 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 85 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\driver whiz\driver whiz\driverwhiz.exe" /showwelcomC:false /actioC:checkrulemanifests /applicationmodC:current |
| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | taskeng.exe (Task Scheduler Engine by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| DriverWhiz.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00595797% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00239614% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00356183% | |
| CPU cycles: | 138,033/sec | |
| Memory: | 3.38 MB | |
| sendori.dll (Sendori.dll by Sendori) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00184771% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00103731% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00081040% | |
| CPU cycles: | 461,924/sec | |
| Context switches: | 14/sec | |
| Memory: | 316 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00023754% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00013315% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00010440% | |
| CPU cycles: | 45,866/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.23 MB | |
| mscorwks.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00009723% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00002162% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00007561% | |
| CPU cycles: | 8,018/sec | |
| Memory: | 5.67 MB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
85.71% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
14.29% |
|
Distribution by country
Israel installs about 71.43% of Driver Whiz.
