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Performance resource utilization
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Import table
kernel32.dll
IsDebuggerPresent, GetCurrentProcess, TerminateProcess, GetSystemTimeAsFileTime, GetCurrentProcessId, GetCurrentThreadId, GetTickCount, QueryPerformanceCounter, SetUnhandledExceptionFilter, GetStartupInfoA, InterlockedCompareExchange, Sleep, InterlockedExchange, HeapAlloc, IsBadReadPtr, SetLastError, GetProcessHeap, HeapFree, VirtualFree, VirtualProtect, VirtualAlloc, FreeLibrary, GetModuleHandleA, OutputDebugStringA, GetFullPathNameA, LoadLibraryA, GetProcAddress, UnmapViewOfFile, CreateFileA, GetFileSize, CreateFileMappingA, CloseHandle, MapViewOfFile, FindResourceA, LoadResource, LockResource, GetModuleFileNameA, GetLastError, FormatMessageA, LocalFree, lstrlenA, UnhandledExceptionFilter
msvcr90.dll
DllMain
user32.dll
GetFocus, MessageBoxA
mdmonitor.exe
MaxiDisk Monitor by Uniblue Systems (Signed)
| Version: | 1.0.3.10 |
| MD5: | dd011eda54d3c01764e8b805387d25d2 |
| SHA1: | 3e66c0877aec7f8b9a696f507c2d7cbed7e80d04 |
| SHA256: | b972f244542700d7a892d42a9d3d7296fce89455e950969bc160cc9ee5873d85 |
What is mdmonitor.exe?
Uniblue MaxiDisk Monitor runs at PC boot time and is designed to automatically check the status of Uniblue MaxiDisk as well as the PC.
About mdmonitor.exe (from Uniblue Systems)
“A computer’s hard disk is prone to accumulating unnecessary files, such as Windows temporary files and temporary internet files, which can either be created by applications or stored by a web browser.”
Overview
mdmonitor.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is an auto-starting process that used the Windows Task Scheduler service to load when the user logs into Windows (sometimes this is required to bypass the UAC protection). This is typically installed with the program Uniblue MaxiDisk published by Uniblue Systems Ltd. The file is digitally signed by Uniblue Systems which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | mdmonitor.exe |
| Publisher: | Uniblue Systems Limited |
| Product name: | MaxiDisk Monitor |
| Description: | Uniblue MaxiDisk Monitor |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\uniblue\maxidisk\mdmonitor.exe |
| File version: | 1.0.3.10 |
| Size: | 25.39 KB (26,000 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Uniblue Systems |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, May 6, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
“MaxiDisk offers a number of features related to the performance of your hard drives. It helps in gaining extra disk space by detecting and removing Junk files and old Windows backups that might not be needed any longer. To gain further disk space, the file compression feature scans for those files in your user profile that are taking up the most space, and compresses them into smaller files at the click of a button. The disk defragmenta...”
Behaviors
Scheduled tasks
- The job 'mdmonitor' runs on logon in the path '\mdmonitor'
- Entry path '\mdmonitor'
- Entry path '\MaxiDisk'
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
- Login entry path '\mdmonitor'
- Login entry path '\MaxiDisk'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00254683% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00047748% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00206935% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,196,117 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 31,241/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 13.45 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 14.34 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 433.33 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 13.45 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 88.69 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 93.69 MB | |
| Working set: | 2.24 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 17.13 MB | |
| Page faults: | 42,454/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 3.24 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 117 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 3/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 2 | |
| Handles: | 154 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 7 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 7 | |
| GUI USER count: | 2 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 2 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
92.31% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
7.69% |
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Distribution by country
Canada installs about 23.08% of MaxiDisk Monitor.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Lenovo |
50.00% |
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| Alienware |
25.00% |
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| Acer |
25.00% |
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