wlstartup.exe
Windows Live by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 15.4.3555.0308 |
| MD5: | 097ae247474811eecf9ff1809059c141 |
| SHA1: | 9c8b71cd05391ae85cc8be742edc05835d82357d |
| SHA256: | 7f7f7e2469bfe00f0dcef0e8290345a8544921594c893b46b3076e58adddd996 |
Overview
wlstartup.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
wlmail.exe (Windows Live Mail by Microsoft Corporation). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Windows Live Essentials published by Microsoft Corporation, Windows Live from Microsoft Corporation and Windows Live by Microsoft Corporation. The file is digitally signed by Microsoft Corporation. This particular version is usually found on Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7600.0).
Details
| File name: | wlstartup.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows Live |
| Description: | Windows Live Essentials |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\windows live\installer\wlstartup.exe |
| File version: | 15.4.3555.0308 |
| Size: | 601.35 KB (615,784 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Monday, February 21, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Windows Live Essentials is a suite of freeware applications by Microsoft that aims to offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing, and security services. Essentials programs are designed to integrate well with each other, with Microsoft Windows, and with other Microsoft web-based services such as SkyDrive and Outlook.com, so that they operate as a seamless whole.
Windows Live "is a way to extend the Windows user experience". Windows Vista provides a link in its user interface to download Windows Live Messenger, and Windows 7 saw the removal of applications such as Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker and replaced with the Windows Essentials suite, a software package that allows the downloading and installation of similar offerings from Windows Live. Windows Live offers int...
“Windows Live is the former collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft; part of their software plus services platform. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also client-side binary applications that require installation. There are three ways in which Windows Live services are offered: Windows Essentials applications, web services, and mobile servi...”
Windows Live Installer was the name of the website and software given to serve the purposes of allowing users to discover, download and install Windows Live software and services. Users were able to select the Windows Live software they wished to install on the website, and the website would pass on the information to the unified installer software such that the installer will only download and install those applications selected.
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00005791% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00002030% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003761% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 109 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 9 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 26.35 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 404 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 9 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 182.89 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 185.89 MB | |
| Working set: | 2.71 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 26.38 MB | |
| Page faults: | 12,681/min | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 9 | |
| Handles: | 320 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
100.00% |
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