Should I block it?
40% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
Additional versions
SlimDrivers.exe
SlimDrivers by Slimware Utilities (Signed)
| Version: | 2.2.29897.34872 |
| MD5: | 7936bbb6292f1b5b3d93b15b66137bc9 |
| SHA1: | 3853f8ce2b8de268a1aebafde7d75730cd3c5912 |
| SHA256: | 2e09e189af116c6489cb7b89ddc18f1c8e1b3b3174813def7619f8c4c37f4348 |
Overview
slimdrivers.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is set to be run when the PC boots and the user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the current user). It is installed with a couple of know programs including SlimDrivers published by SlimWare Utilities, Inc. and GEAR driver installer for x86 and x64 published by GEAR Software, Inc.. The file is digitally signed by Slimware Utilities which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | slimdrivers.exe |
| Publisher: | SlimWare Utilities, Inc. |
| Product name: | SlimDrivers |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\slimdrivers\slimdrivers.exe |
| File version: | 2.2.29897.34872 |
| Product version: | 2.2.0.0 |
| Size: | 28.02 MB (29,378,880 bytes) |
| Build date: | 5/30/2013 2:54 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Slimware Utilities |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Thursday, January 3, 2013 |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, January 4, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“GEAR licenses our CD/DVD recording 'drivers' to many companies to add CD/DVD recording capabilities to their software products. This driver interface provides the connection between their software application and the user's operating system and hardware.”
“SlimDrivers automatically updates PC drivers with real-time scanning and cloud technology. The first cloud-based utility for updating and maintaining drivers, SlimDrivers provides instant optimization of the interaction between a computer and its system components and periperhals, such as printers, graphic and sound cards, motherboards, USB ports, game controllers and other devices and hardware. SlimDrivers scans a PC, identifies the co...”
Behaviors
Scheduled tasks
- The task 'SlimDrivers Scan' runs weekly in the path '\SlimDrivers Scan'
- The job 'SlimDrivers Startup' runs on logon in the path '\SlimDrivers Startup'
- Entry path '\SlimDrivers Startup'
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
- Login entry path '\SlimDrivers Startup'
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'SlimDrivers' → "C:\Program Files\SlimDrivers\SlimDrivers.exe" -boot
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00408694% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00402880% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00005815% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 89,700,575 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 7.56 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 33.35 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 648 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 7.56 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 125.53 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 132.98 MB | |
| Working set: | 1.69 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 34.15 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 5 | |
| Handles: | 324 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 550 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 559 | |
| GUI USER count: | 242 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 247 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
27.12% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
25.42% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
16.95% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
15.25% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
6.78% |
|
| Windows 8 |
5.08% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
1.69% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
1.69% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 61.40% of SlimDrivers.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
29.27% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
19.51% |
|
| ASUS |
17.07% |
|
| Acer |
10.98% |
|
| MSI |
7.32% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
6.10% |
|
| Intel |
4.88% |
|
| Alienware |
2.44% |
|
| Toshiba |
2.44% |
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