Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
(Note, Stardock Corporation publishes each variation of this file with the same version, but the hashes are unique.)
Relationships
Parent process
Related files
Start8.exe
Stardock Start8 by Stardock Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 1.0.1.0 |
| MD5: | b16e49d8657a5591cb7023cf89e405ac |
| SHA1: | fa9330f41c0a073b3a80899c9f27632f9edd232a |
| SHA256: | 057c7fcbd524ecd7b02cf1c7e09e97c36fd8564f366e39c9794b5cb069d649f4 |
Overview
start8.exe executes as a process under the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges (the system and the administrator accounts have the same file privileges) typically within the context of its parent
start8srv.exe (Stardock Start8 by Stardock Corporation). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Start8 published by Stardock Corporation, Start8 from Stardock Corporation and Start8 by Stardock Corporation. The file is digitally signed by Stardock Corporation which was issued by the COMODO CA Limited certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | start8.exe |
| Publisher: | Stardock Software, Inc |
| Product name: | Stardock Start8 |
| Description: | Start8 |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\stardock\start8\start8.exe |
| File version: | 1.0.1.0 |
| Product version: | 1.0 |
| Size: | 235.17 KB (240,816 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Stardock Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | COMODO CA Limited |
| Effective date: | Sunday, April 10, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, April 10, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“We put the "Start" menu back in Windows 8. We accurately recreated the most used desktop feature billions of users depend on every day and packed it with additional functionality. Windows 7-style Start menu with Windows 8 enhancements.
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“We put the "Start" menu back in Windows 8. We accurately recreated the most used desktop feature billions of users depend on every day and packed it with additional functionality. Windows 7-style Start menu with Windows 8 enhancements.
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Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00015627% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00011784% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003843% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 8 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,835/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 600 KB | |
| Private (maximum): | 1.44 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 114 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 600 KB | |
| Virtual memory: | 31.37 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 32.85 MB | |
| Working set: | 228 KB | |
| Working set (peak): | 2.78 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,138/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O other transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 1 | |
| Handles: | 32 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 10 | |
| GUI USER count: | 4 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 5 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8 Pro |
50.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
25.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
25.00% |
|
Distribution by country
Egypt installs about 50.00% of Stardock Start8.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
50.00% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
50.00% |
|
