yahoowidgets.exe
Yahoo! Widgets by Yahoo! Inc. (Signed)
| Version: | 4.5.2 |
| MD5: | e98ea7471918e1987075815dc4c61001 |
| SHA1: | fa9fcaa33b1248513133d4a776aa88b4c129e84d |
| SHA256: | 93ab3228e10fb75228d6a9eafdb9b8fd0bc65320e1ffbd9520663bbed153e457 |
Overview
yahoowidgets.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. During installation, it (or a shortcut) is added to the user's startup folder which is designed to automatically launch when the user logs into Windows. It is installed with a couple of know programs including Yahoo! Widgets published by Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo! Install Manager published by Yahoo! Inc.. The file is digitally signed by Yahoo! Inc. which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| 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 |
| File version: | 4.5.2 |
| Size: | 4.52 MB (4,742,184 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Yahoo! Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, November 8, 2006 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, April 9, 2009 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
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 widget engines. It includes some default widgets to get users started, including a weather widget, a digital clock, and a calendar among other things. Some of the most downloaded ones include a world timezone clock, and webcam viewers. Each wi...
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
User start menu folder
Shortcut pointer placed in '%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu'
- Shortcut to 'yahoowidgets.exe'
Network connections
[TCP] timegov.boulder.nist.gov (132.163.4.22:80)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00175041% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00099492% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00075549% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 19,630,566 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 6,608,274/sec | |
| Context switches: | 13/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 17.91 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 12.49 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 5.25 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 17.91 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 103.51 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 107.98 MB | |
| Working set: | 9.25 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 22.74 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,847,848/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 46.43 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 81/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 483 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 8.69 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1,184/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 8 | |
| Handles: | 371 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 32 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 38 | |
| GUI USER count: | 23 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 32 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Undefined |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\yahoo!\widgets\yahoowidgets.exe"
- C:\Program Files\yahoo!\widgets\yahoowidgets.exe /child "C:\users\user\documents\my widgets\itunes remote.widget" /dock
- "C:\documents and settings\hp_administrator\desktop\Program Files\yahoo!\widgets\yahoowidgets.exe"
- C:\Documents and Settings\user\My documents\my widgets\cpu portal.widget" /dock
- C:\Documents and Settings\user\My documents\my widgets\analog clock.widget" /dock
- C:\Documents and Settings\user\My documents\my widgets\yahoo! weather.widget" /dock
- C:\Documents and Settings\user\My documents\my widgets\sun clock.widget" /dock
- (14 more)
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent processes: |
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Threads
Averages
| YahooWidgets.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.18281850% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.05374106% | |
| User CPU: | 0.12907745% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,440,639/sec | |
| Context switches: | 18/sec | |
| Memory: | 4.55 MB | |
| gdiplus.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00022619% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00018411% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00004208% | |
| Memory: | 1.67 MB | |
| Normaliz.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00013151% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006989% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00006162% | |
| Memory: | 36 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00005522% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00004672% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000850% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,061/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.23 MB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
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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