Versions

6.0.0.16	88.89%
6.0.0.16	11.11%

There are 2 versions of desktopweather.exe in the wild, the latest version being 6.0.0.16. desktopweather.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. The process displays a GUI (graphical user interface) which allows the user to interact with it as well as displays a notification icon in the taskbar. By adding a startup entry to the run registry key, the file will be executed when the user logs into Windows. The average file size is about 803.14 KB. The file is a digitally signed and issued to The Weather Channel Interactive by VeriSign. Some variations of the file have been seen to be installed with the program The Weather Channel Desktop 6 from The Weather Channel. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0001% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 141.94 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 149.76 KB per minute for reads and 12.98 KB per minute for writes.

The Weather Channel App for Windows is a desktop app that runs in the background as well as the foreground when called upon (sits in the task bar) and provides weather reports. The app also adds an icon in the notification area to display local temperature in your system tray.