yahoowidgets.exe
Yahoo! Widgets by Yahoo! Inc. (Signed)
Overview
There are 2 versions of yahoowidgets.exe in the wild, the latest version being 4.5.2. yahoowidgets.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. When the program is installed, it will add a shortcut pointer in the Start Menu which will execute the file as a process upon a user login. The average file size is about 4.04 MB. The file is a digitally signed and issued to Yahoo! Inc. by VeriSign. Numerous variations of yahoowidgets.exe have been installed with both Yahoo! Widgets and Yahoo! Install Manager. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0019% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 16.89 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 46.43 KB per minute for reads and 483 Bytes per minute for writes.
 Details
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| File name: | yahoowidgets.exe |
| Publisher: | Yahoo! Inc. |
| Product name: | Yahoo! Widgets |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\yahoo!\widgets\yahoowidgets.exe |
| Original name: | YahooWidgetEngine.exe |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Yahoo! Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, November 8, 2006 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, April 9, 2009 |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of Yahoo! Widgets.)
Yahoo! Widgets uses a JavaScript runtime environment combined with an XML interpreter to run small applications referred to as widgets, and hence is part of a class of software applications called wid...
Yahoo Install Manager manages Yahoo program downloads and installations. The install manager keeps track of such programs and assists in the installations to put things in their proper places.
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of yahoowidgets.exe, select a unique version for details.)
User start menu folder
Shortcut pointer placed in '%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu'
- Shortcut to 'yahoowidgets.exe'
All file variations of yahoowidgets.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
33.33% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
27.78% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
16.67% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
11.11% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium |
11.11% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 55.56% of Yahoo! Widgets.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| American Megatrends |
50.00% |
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| GIGABYTE |
30.00% |
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| Toshiba |
20.00% |
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