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45% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
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SpotifyWebHelper.exe
Spotify by Spotify AB (Signed)
| Version: | 0.8.8.348 |
| MD5: | c84933011f01a3c9f8133b1ec157376d |
| SHA1: | 4b0b2b25da58f6ee830c77bcce2c1acb1daf5630 |
| SHA256: | bda819be4325775b317baab45bff5ef3c34f604984a59719e3748a1345e6b9ec |
What is SpotifyWebHelper.exe?
This is the embedded web browser (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox) add-in of Spotify that detects when a user clicks on a spotify music link on the web and then openes the Spotify desktop program. Users can access applications integrated in the Spotify desktop client, written in HTML5. Spotify is a Swedish music streaming service offering digitally restricted streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels.
About SpotifyWebHelper.exe (from Spotify AB)
“Think of Spotify as your new music collection. Your library. Only this time your collection is vast: millions of tracks and counting. Spotify comes in all shapes and sizes, available for your PC, Mac,”
Details
| File name: | spotifywebhelper.exe |
| Publisher: | Spotify Ltd |
| Product name: | Spotify |
| Description: | SpotifyWebHelper |
| Typical file path: | C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\spotify\data\spotifywebhelper.exe |
| File version: | 0.8.8.348 |
| Size: | 1.05 MB (1,103,768 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Spotify AB |
| Authority (CA): | COMODO CA Limited |
| Effective date: | Thursday, September 27, 2012 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, September 28, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Spotify Web Helper' → "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\Spotify\Data\SpotifyWebHelper.exe"
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00005074% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00004104% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000969% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 305 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 167,424/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 2.26 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 6.49 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 140 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 2.26 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 93.53 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 110.8 MB | |
| Working set: | 1.57 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 6.51 MB | |
| Page faults: | 17,248/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 23 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 31 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 2 | |
| Handles: | 172 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 10 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 11 | |
| GUI USER count: | 5 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 7 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
30.82% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
14.38% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
9.59% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
8.90% |
|
| Windows 8 |
6.16% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
5.48% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
5.48% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
4.11% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
3.42% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
3.42% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
1.37% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
1.37% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.37% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro Preview with Media Center |
1.37% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium N |
1.37% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
0.68% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
0.68% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 50.68% of Spotify.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
26.57% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
20.98% |
|
| Lenovo |
15.38% |
|
| Acer |
10.49% |
|
| ASUS |
8.39% |
|
| Toshiba |
8.39% |
|
| MSI |
4.20% |
|
| Samsung |
2.80% |
|
| Intel |
2.80% |
|
