WLANExt.exe
Windows Wireless LAN 802.11 Extensibility Framework by Microsoft
| Version: | 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) |
| MD5: | 23c3a0680042c0d1de1f360f8b62bc57 |
| SHA1: | e74750af4f8bb771eaa4b0a86dbfc7ab411a14c7 |
| SHA256: | 258907cf0989cffa469aafa31a133bdbc8ea2c728975577dfceb837b708ff107 |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
What is WLANExt.exe?
The Windows Wireless LAN 802.11 Extensibility Framework provides an interface to Windows Vista's wireless security and connectivity features for the drivers of wireless network adapters.
Overview
WLANExt.exe executes as a process under the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges (the system and the administrator accounts have the same file privileges) typically within the context of its parent
svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation). This version is designed to run on Windows Vista and is compiled as a 32 bit program.
Details
| File name: | WLANExt.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows Wireless LAN 802.11 Extensibility Framework |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\wlanext.exe |
| Original name: | wlanext.exe.mui |
| File version: | 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) |
| Product version: | 6.0.6000.16386 |
| Size: | 72.5 KB (74,240 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.318063 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00216001% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00105228% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00110772% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,653,932 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 918,118/sec | |
| Context switches: | 54/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 4.08 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 5.76 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 3.7 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 4.08 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 61.58 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 72.51 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.93 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 7.73 MB | |
| Page faults: | 27,571/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 98 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 65 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 571 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 41/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 12 | |
| Handles: | 199 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- C:\Windows\System32\wlanext.exe 6631024
- C:\Windows\System32\wlanext.exe 3278160
- C:\Windows\System32\wlanext.exe 2797224
- C:\Windows\System32\wlanext.exe 3407224
- C:\Windows\System32\wlanext.exe 3710264
- C:\Windows\System32\wlanext.exe 3772432
- C:\Windows\System32\wlanext.exe 3175968
- (33 more)
|
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Parent process: | svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation) |
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00350640% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00235523% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00115117% | |
| CPU cycles: | 277,728/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.16 MB | |
| RPCRT4.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00147367% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00020934% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00126433% | |
| CPU cycles: | 28,118/sec | |
| Memory: | 780 KB | |
| Wlanapi.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00052656% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00019555% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00033101% | |
| CPU cycles: | 11,738/sec | |
| Memory: | 72 KB | |
| WLANExt.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00017629% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00011172% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00006457% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,448/sec | |
| Memory: | 84 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 7 Home Premium |
51.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
23.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
6.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
5.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
4.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
4.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro Preview with Media Center |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 44.22% of Windows Wireless LAN 802.11 Extensibility Framework.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
30.42% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
13.92% |
|
| ASUS |
13.59% |
|
| Toshiba |
12.94% |
|
| Acer |
8.09% |
|
| Lenovo |
7.77% |
|
| Sony |
7.12% |
|
| Samsung |
1.62% |
|
| Alienware |
1.29% |
|
| NEC |
1.29% |
|
| Gateway |
1.29% |
|
| Medion |
0.65% |
|
