DriverUpdate.exe

DriverUpdate by Slimware Utilities (Signed)

Remove DriverUpdate.exe

Overview

driverupdate.exe has 9 known versions, the most recent one is 2.2.38275.40784. driverupdate.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. The process utilizes the Windows Task Scheduler to automatically launch the file as a process when a user logs into Windows. The average file size is about 31.07 MB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Slimware Utilities by the certification authority VeriSign. The programs DriverUpdate, ESU for Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Microsoft XML Parser and SDK have been observed as installing specific variations of driverupdate.exe. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0026% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 23.18 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 43.21 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 2.58 KB per minute for reads and 1.99 KB per minute for writes.

DetailsDetails

File name:driverupdate.exe
Publisher:SlimWare Utilities, Inc.
Product name:DriverUpdate
Typical file path:C:\Program Files\driverupdate\driverupdate.exe
Certificate
Issued to:Slimware Utilities
Authority (CA):VeriSign
Effective date:Monday, April 1, 2013
Expiration date:Wednesday, April 1, 2015

ResourcesPrograms installed in

(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of DriverUpdate.)
Acer Incorporated
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Office-Addin is part of the AcerCloud platform and is designed to integrate with Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and to backup files to the cloud.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Adobe Acrobat and Reader are a set of applications designed to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of pre...
AGEIA Technologies, Inc.
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AGEIA GAME System Software manages PhysX, a PPU expansion card designed by Ageia to accelerate PhysX-enabled video games. Video games supporting hardware acceleration by PhysX can be accelerated by e...
Alexander Nikiforov
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The main features of MP3 Skype Recorder are it's absolutely free with no limits attached, automatic or manual recording capabilities, compact format of stored records (mp3 files), may be used to recor...
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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The Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol, also known as Protected EAP or simply PEAP, is a protocol that encapsulates the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) within an encrypted and authe...
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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Cisco LEAP is an 802.1X authentication type for wireless LANs (WLANs) that supports strong mutual authentication between the client and a RADIUS server using a logon password as the shared secret. It...
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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Authentication via Secure Tunneling (EAP-FAST), an EAP type from Cisco Systems. Extensible Authentication Protocol-Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling (EAP-FAST) is a publicly accessible IEEE...
CyberLink Corp.
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Some Dell PCs come pre-loaded with the Cyberlink add-in for Microsoft Outlook. Read more: How to Uninstall the Cyberlink Outlook Add-in | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_7323354_uninstall-cyberli...
Dell Inc.
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Dell Edoc Viewer is pre-installed with various Dell PCs and is part of the Dell support system. Dell eDoc Viewer or Dell Document Viewer is a display tool that collects and displays all documents hard...
Dell Inc.
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Dell DataSafe Online helps protect your music, photos and other important files by placing backup copies on a secure storage site using your internet connection. For your security all data is encrypte...
Dell Inc.
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Dell Support Center is a control panel for system tools and diagnostics. It contains extensive help sections for online tools, warranty information, Dell technical support links and Dell customer supp...
Facebook
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Facebook Messenger is an instant messaging service and software application which provides text and video communication. Like Facebook's web-based Chat feature, it supports the open-source XMPP protoc...
Google Inc
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Google Talk is an instant messaging service that provides both text and voice communication. Google Talk is also the name of the client applications offered by Google to access the service. Google Tal...
Hewlett-Packard
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Hewlett-Packard
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Linkury Inc.
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QuickShare, also know as Smartbar, is an auto-starting program that is typically bundled with various shareware software. It displays advertising and is designed to run when Windows boots up. In addit...
Microsoft Corporation
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When you participate in the Windows Feedback Program, three types of data collected from your computer: The Windows CEIP is a way for Microsoft to learn how customers are using Windows 8 and Windows 7...
Microsoft Corporation
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The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is a set of tools and documentation that support the configuration and deployment of Windows® operating systems. By using Windows AIK, you can aut...
Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Works is an integrated package software that was produced by Microsoft. Works is smaller, less expensive, and has fewer features than Microsoft Office or other major office suites. Its core ...
Microsoft Corporation
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BehaviorsBehaviors

(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of driverupdate.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Scheduled tasks
  • The job 'DriverUpdate Startup' runs on logon in the path '\DriverUpdate Startup'
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
  • Login entry path '\DriverUpdate Startup'

VersionsAll file variations of driverupdate.exe

MD5SHA-1File size
673c489613a2d5c06939e8e0f8170812 8b320fbd8e9b4b9e37da6c91cf430dc061db10c8 24.6 MB
741c2bb077b90b2b3d1ae137a1313486 84d6fd8fb1c23d300bb8f628e7801701784bc651 24.6 MB
f4b0acefd22cdbb5effa88c404de53f4 94162ef887d728d39f8b67f3fde02b201d7b3c56 33.62 MB
6a9f6190c933cbc73e61fd3e2fc79f73 ec15166387b9bfb1ffcfe74f90479eeaa76de73b 33.73 MB
6e1902ac346ad1d75946822116ad3c1c 4a9ca253a9796fd5548ced5d87c9fe6f45c7effb 32.62 MB
e6c45774db500eb3ee32a788e68ec00c c74d3f640346107f872db8864a312fcd4be2dc37 32.64 MB
a5a833f16618f2dffb5840cf7e69c8b5 69a59248f5ca5c339fcf15b70606c36648cd7e7c 32.64 MB
7a3a1c4ef95b167d69ffc095e77f3b31 34176001e34c21676377f5e300934642d1cc4ae5 32.62 MB
41367c68e90af2034020f5962bb15958 a70e1a0351edf53625062320c358500d74f7dc53 32.58 MB

Windows OS versionsDistribution by Windows OS

OS versiondistribution
Windows 7 Home Premium 55.56%
Windows 7 Professional 13.89%
Windows 8 Pro 8.33%
Windows Vista Home Premium 5.56%
Windows 8.1 Pro 2.78%
Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation 2.78%
Windows Vista Ultimate 2.78%
Windows 7 Ultimate 2.78%
Windows Vista Business 2.78%
Windows 8 2.78%

Distribution by countryDistribution by country

United States installs about 77.78% of DriverUpdate.

OEM distributionDistribution by PC manufacturer

PC Manufacturerdistribution
Dell 36.36%
Toshiba 21.82%
Hewlett-Packard 20.00%
Lenovo 10.91%
Acer 3.64%
ASUS 3.64%
Samsung 1.82%
Alienware 1.82%
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