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60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
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softinfo.exe
Software Informer by Informer Technologies
| Version: | 1.2.794.0 |
| MD5: | 99d7fa0b1023dd0e29608a5819c0323c |
| SHA1: | 1164a9843237f2ae323666c3d2aa59bed5c1765f |
| SHA256: | f1e7e7877758938508ea3266873b6ba2c0ea240f711891bbabc9233d7a3f54e0 |
What is softinfo.exe?
Software Informer is used to locate new versions of applications that are already installed on the computer system and downloaded from softwareinformer.com. Applications that currently have upgrades available are shown to the user, who can proceed with the upgrade with a simple click.
About softinfo.exe (from Informer Technologies)
“The Software Informer client application. First, you get notifications about important updates of your software and can directly manage your installed programs. Second, you get a nice overview of your”
Details
| File name: | softinfo.exe |
| Publisher: | Informer Technologies, Inc. |
| Product name: | Software Informer |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\software informer\softinfo.exe |
| File version: | 1.2.794.0 |
| Product version: | 1.2 |
| Size: | 6.03 MB (6,326,272 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
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Informer Technologies, Inc. |
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“Software Informer is a powerful application that keeps your software updated. Software Informer will scan your entire computer and detect your applications' versions. You can get notifications about important software updates, find a perfect program according to your needs, ask questions and get feedback from experienced users. Software Informer will detect your installed software automatically, and it will display available up-to-date ...”
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Software Informer' → "C:\Program Files\Software Informer\softinfo.exe" -autorun
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00108053% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00074150% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00033903% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 3,744,024 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 16,681/sec | |
| Context switches: | 28/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 7.86 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 14.55 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 504 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 7.86 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 122.06 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 131.41 MB | |
| Working set: | 736 KB | |
| Working set (peak): | 14.64 MB | |
| Page faults: | 223,510/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 11 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 2 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 4 | |
| Handles: | 180 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 571 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 576 | |
| GUI USER count: | 198 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 201 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
30.00% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
20.00% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
20.00% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
20.00% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
10.00% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 44.44% of Software Informer.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
80.00% |
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| Acer |
20.00% |
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