Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
(Note, Hewlett-Packard Company publishes each variation of this file with the same version, but the hashes are unique.)
Relationships
HPWMISVC.exe
HP System Event Utility by Hewlett-Packard Company (Signed)
| Version: | 1.0.2.0 |
| MD5: | a76c371a65af0ca1e7f9d85a5722e643 |
| SHA1: | 91ee683d54edece639da2c8cbc1d1773a2d926b9 |
Overview
hpwmisvc.exe runs as a service under the name HPWMISVC with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The file is digitally signed by Hewlett-Packard Company which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | hpwmisvc.exe |
| Publisher: | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. |
| Product name: | HP System Event Utility |
| Description: | HP WMI Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\hewlett-packard\hp system event\hpwmisvc.exe |
| File version: | 1.0.2.0 |
| Size: | 1014.8 KB (1,039,160 bytes) |
| Build date: | 2/1/2013 8:59 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Hewlett-Packard Company |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00002716% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000988% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001728% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 151,073 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 859/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.24 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 4.99 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 4.92 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.24 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 48.41 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 52.2 MB | |
| Working set: | 4.92 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 5.01 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,685/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O write transfer: | 4 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 3 | |
| Handles: | 103 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\hewlett-packard\hp system event\hpwmisvc.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | HPWMISVC |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess, InteractiveProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8.1 |
88.89% |
|
| Windows 8 |
11.11% |
|
Distribution by country
Belgium installs about 22.22% of HP System Event Utility.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
100.00% |
|
