HKCMD.exe
Intel Common User Interface by Intel Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 8.15.10.2932 |
| MD5: | 40cb9992130864e94ce6f69e22a7193f |
| SHA1: | f48bd616863b6797e1e7e21890427c648f6fecc9 |
| SHA256: | b0c50ff8912cabe1b46877f8768eaae6c6afc644d06a718f677990e3e663172d |
What is HKCMD.exe?
The Common User Interface is part of Intels Common User Interface for chipsets with integrated graphics controllers which allows user to change different driver properties through Windows User Interface. Quick access to the control panel via a System Tray icon.
Overview
hkcmd.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
boost.exe (Boost by Reason Software Company Inc.). 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). The file is digitally signed by Intel Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | hkcmd.exe |
| Publisher: | Intel Corporation |
| Product name: | Intel(R) Common User Interface |
| Description: | hkcmd Module |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\hkcmd.exe |
| File version: | 8.15.10.2932 |
| Size: | 390.48 KB (399,856 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Intel Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, April 23, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.432596 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'HotKeysCmds' → C:\Windows\system32\hkcmd.exe
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00462500% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00462500% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 47 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 191,863/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.8 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 6.52 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 1.24 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.8 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 82.52 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 89.63 MB | |
| Working set: | 1.21 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 6.63 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,880/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O other transfer: | 14 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 34/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 2 | |
| Handles: | 107 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 32 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 33 | |
| GUI USER count: | 17 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 18 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
25.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
19.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
11.50% |
|
| Windows 8 |
9.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
7.50% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
4.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
4.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
3.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
2.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Se7en Titan |
0.50% |
|
| 24 other Windows OS version |
Distribution by country
United States installs about 34.01% of Intel(R) Common User Interface.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
20.00% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
14.83% |
|
| ASUS |
13.79% |
|
| Toshiba |
13.10% |
|
| Lenovo |
12.41% |
|
| Sony |
8.97% |
|
| Acer |
7.93% |
|
| Intel |
3.45% |
|
| Samsung |
1.72% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
1.03% |
|
| Alienware |
0.69% |
|
| American Megatrends |
0.69% |
|
| NEC |
0.69% |
|
| MSI |
0.69% |
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