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flashutil_activex.exe

Adobe Flash Player Utility by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)

Remove flashutil_activex.exe
Version:   11,6,602,180
MD5:   91f7978c6e034f79ae4991c4b9f8ccc9
SHA1:   ecdf83c0daac422f0179f414e3742bad26d631f7
SHA256:   f417af48a11226acf226c1dc34d401cd4d0c1a79e4462ce13698abb2382c7710

What is flashutil_activex.exe?

Adobe Flash Player installer and uninstaller process that runs in the background. The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools.

About flashutil_activex.exe (from Microsoft Corporation)

Adobe Flash Player is the standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content. Designs, animation, and application user interfaces are deployed immediately across all browsers and platforms, attract

DetailsDetails

File name:flashutil_activex.exe
Publisher:Adobe Systems Incorporated
Product name:Adobe® Flash® Player Utility
Typical file path:C:\Windows\System32\macromed\flash\flashutil_activex.exe
Original name:FlashUtil.exe
File version:11,6,602,180
Size:427.84 KB (438,104 bytes)
Certificate
Issued to:Microsoft Corporation
Authority (CA):Microsoft Corporation
Expiration date:Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Digital DNA
PE subsystem:Windows GUI
File packed:No
.NET CLR:No
More details

ResourcesPrograms

The following programs will install this file
Adobe Systems Incorporated
6% remove
Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX for 64-bit versions of Windows is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools. Flash Player is freely available as a plugin for recent versions of web browsers (such as Internet Exp...
Adobe Systems Incorporated
7% remove
Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin for 64-bit versions of Windows is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools. Flash Player is freely available as a plugin for recent versions of web browsers (such as Internet Expl...

ResourcesResource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
 
CPU
Total CPU:0.02802570%
0.028634%
Kernel CPU:0.01394206%
0.013761%
User CPU:0.01408364%
0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:10,568 ms/min
100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:14,152,457/sec
17,470,203/sec
Context switches:480/sec
284/sec
Memory
Private memory:3.34 MB
21.59 MB
Private (maximum):7.08 MB
Private (minimum):5.98 MB
Non-paged memory:3.34 MB
21.59 MB
Virtual memory:107.84 MB
140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):110.36 MB
169.69 MB
Working set:6.93 MB
18.61 MB
Working set (peak):8.42 MB
37.95 MB
Page faults:2,553/min
2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:626 Bytes/sec
1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:2/sec
343/min
I/O write transfer:101 Bytes/sec
274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:1/sec
227/min
I/O other transfer:678 Bytes/sec
448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:52/sec
1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:4
12
Handles:152
600
GUI GDI count:10
103
GUI GDI peak:10
142
GUI USER count:5
49
GUI USER peak:6
71

BehaviorsProcess properties

Integrety level:Undefined
Platform:64-bit
Command line:"C:\Windows\System32\macromed\flash\flashutil_activex.exe" -embedding
Owner:User
Parent process:svchost.exe (by Microsoft)

ResourcesThreads

Averages
 
FlashUtil_ActiveX.exe (main module)
Total CPU:0.13080770%
0.272967%
Kernel CPU:0.05908341%
0.107585%
User CPU:0.07172429%
0.165382%
CPU cycles:3,711,156/sec
5,741,424/sec
Context switches:98/sec
79/sec
Memory:440 KB
1.16 MB
ntdll.dll
Total CPU:0.06591527%
Kernel CPU:0.02560444%
User CPU:0.04031084%
CPU cycles:2,414,083/sec
Context switches:70/sec
Memory:1.74 MB

Common loaded modules

These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.

Windows OS versionsDistribution by Windows OS

OS versiondistribution
Windows 8 35.82%
Windows 8 Pro 34.33%
Windows 8.1 10.45%
Windows 8 Pro with Media Center 10.45%
Windows 8 Single Language 4.48%
Windows 8 Enterprise N 1.49%
Windows 8 Enterprise 1.49%
Windows 8 Release Preview 1.49%

Distribution by countryDistribution by country

United States installs about 53.85% of Adobe® Flash® Player Utility.

OEM distributionDistribution by PC manufacturer

PC Manufacturerdistribution
ASUS 24.24%
Hewlett-Packard 16.67%
Toshiba 15.15%
Acer 13.64%
Dell 12.12%
Sony 9.09%
Intel 3.03%
Lenovo 3.03%
Samsung 1.52%
GIGABYTE 1.52%
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