epowertray.exe
Power Management by Acer Incorporated (Signed)
| Version: | 4, 5, 3004, 0 |
| MD5: | dba9aa300b71fa6d28d72d65d25ccf13 |
| SHA1: | 852676f7c03746563b4f405362a0d4e8f19efddc |
| SHA256: | fc749201863d9142b2d93378d8c42cb807fd284719973a766ff61dedfdd96d21 |
What is epowertray.exe?
ePowerTray is the program that runs in the notification area system tray.
About epowertray.exe (from Acer Incorporated)
“Acer ePower Management is a tool that provides you with an easy, reliable and safe means of selecting a power scheme that balances your needs for extended battery life and processing power.”
Overview
epowertray.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 Acer ePower Management published by Acer Incorporated, eMachines Power Management from Acer Incorporated and eMachines Power Management by Acer Incorporated. The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). The file is digitally signed by Acer Incorporated which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | epowertray.exe |
| Publisher: | Acer Incorporated |
| Product name: | Power Management |
| Description: | ePowerTray |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\acer\acer epower management\epowertray.exe |
| Original name: | ePowerTray |
| File version: | 4, 5, 3004, 0 |
| Size: | 686.53 KB (703,008 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Acer Incorporated |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
| Expiration date: | Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
| 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
Acer ePower Management is pre-installed with various Acer laptops and is designed to maximize your PC's power utilization and performance.
eMachines Power Management is pre-installed with various eMachine laptops and is designed to maximize your PC's power utilization and performance.
“OnNow is a new standard for PC's Power Management. Your PC can select between On, Standby, Sleep and Hibernation Mode if there is no activity. If you have a laptop, these chioces will help you conserve battery. Click Start - Settings - Control Panel. Double-click the Power management Icon. Select laptop from the list of Power Schemes. You can setup the Standby time to your convenience using the Standby Time list. You should select betwe...”
The Packard Bell Power Management program is included by default with most new Packard Bell computers.
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Power Management' → C:\Program Files\Acer\Acer ePower Management\ePowerTray.exe
- 'Acer ePower Management' → C:\Program Files\Acer\Acer ePower Management\ePowerTray.exe
Scheduled tasks
- The job 'Power Management' runs on logon in the path '\Power Management'
- Entry path '\Power Management'
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
- Login entry path '\Power Management'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00098721% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00077072% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00021649% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 17,769 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 311,389/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.45 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 5.91 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 4.19 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.45 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 73.42 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 85.91 MB | |
| Working set: | 5.29 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 8.29 MB | |
| Page faults: | 12,594/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 3 | |
| Handles: | 190 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 14 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 16 | |
| GUI USER count: | 6 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 8 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
36.27% |
|
| Windows 8 |
33.16% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
7.25% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
5.18% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
5.18% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
4.15% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
3.11% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
1.55% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
1.55% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
1.55% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
0.52% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
0.52% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 43.23% of Power Management.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Acer |
98.72% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
1.28% |
|
