notepad.exe
Notepad by Microsoft
| Version: | 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) |
| MD5: | daf60e13e96ecb67f0edaa89c6b01b8d |
| SHA1: | afaddc9992a6238277dc11f018d33e8ef7475aa9 |
| SHA256: | a1190c24d4af26e130104c4f1293683eed466752dc22bf4b62aa3aa1c7856afc |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
What is notepad.exe?
Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows. It has been included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985. Notepad is a common text-only (plain text) editor. The resulting files—typically saved with the .txt extension—have no format tags or styles.
About notepad.exe (from Microsoft)
“Notepad is a basic text editor you can use for simple documents or for creating Web pages.”
Overview
notepad.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. This version is designed to run on Windows Vista and is compiled as a 32 bit program.
Details
| File name: | notepad.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Notepad |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe |
| Original name: | NOTEPAD.EXE.MUI |
| File version: | 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) |
| Product version: | 6.0.6000.16386 |
| Size: | 147.5 KB (151,040 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 7.121847 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Shell open commands
- comfile
- batfile
- piffile
- vbefile
- VBSFile
- scrfile
- regfile
- jsefile
- JSFile
- htafile
- CERFile
- txtfile
- scriptletfile
- inifile
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00649881% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00505979% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00143902% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 218 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.59 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 6.64 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 5.47 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.59 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 59.85 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 66.82 MB | |
| Working set: | 5.8 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 7.13 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 1 | |
| Handles: | 54 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 38 | |
| GUI USER count: | 20 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
60.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
22.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
13.00% |
|
| Windows Seven Black Edition |
1.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 61.50% of Notepad.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
32.06% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
19.85% |
|
| Toshiba |
12.98% |
|
| Acer |
12.21% |
|
| ASUS |
9.16% |
|
| Sony |
6.87% |
|
| Alienware |
2.29% |
|
| Samsung |
2.29% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
2.29% |
|
