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60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
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wltray.exe
Broadcom 802.11 Wireless Network Tray Applet by Broadcom
| Version: | 5.60.350.6 |
| MD5: | 7e43bddbaa3eea4636ef573aa4ca6b8e |
| SHA1: | ab8528f8504ed5655074675cfa1517f3d8bfa5ba |
| SHA256: | 0c0143556811f2b9c22ae8807d1126f59029582c5e4509a7ee20964da2b909a4 |
Overview
wltray.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).
Details
| File name: | wltray.exe |
| Publisher: | Broadcom Corporation |
| Product name: | Broadcom 802.11 Wireless Network Tray Applet |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\wltray.exe |
| File version: | 5.60.350.6 |
| Size: | 4.7 MB (4,931,072 bytes) |
| Build date: | 3/23/2010 6:06 AM |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Broadcom Wireless Manager UI' → C:\WINDOWS\system32\WLTRAY.exe
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00084743% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00021619% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00063124% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,872,012 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 8/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 20.41 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 22.18 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 18.6 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 20.41 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 154.77 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 157.77 MB | |
| Working set: | 19.57 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 22.19 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 12 | |
| Handles: | 310 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 37 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 40 | |
| GUI USER count: | 13 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 13 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Professional |
33.33% |
|
| Windows 8 |
33.33% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
33.33% |
|
Distribution by country
Turkey installs about 33.33% of Broadcom 802.11 Wireless Network Tray Applet.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
100.00% |
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