What is the "perfmon.exe" ?

Our database contains 78 different files for filename perfmon.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name perfmon.exe. This files most often belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description Resource and Performance Monitor. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 4 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process perfmon.exe.

If this file comes from Microsoft Windows, it is the Resource and Performance Monitor - a monitor of system resources, which gives the user a global information about CPU and system resources. In fact there are two utilities together - Performance Monitor and Resource Monitor. This executable is located in both <Windows>\System32\perfmon.exe and <Windows>\SysWOW64\perfmon.exe executables. As the context help for this utility says :

"You can use Performance Monitor to view performance data either in real time or from a log file."

"The new Resource Monitor lets you view detailed real-time information about hardware resources (CPU, disk, network, and memory) and system resources (including handles and modules) in use by the operating system, services, and running applications."

perfmon.exe Process

File details of most used file with name "perfmon.exe"

Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Resource and Performance Monitor
Version:
6.1.7601.17514
MD5:
3eb98cff1c242167df5fdbc6441ce3c5
SHA1:
730b27a1c92e8df1e60db5a6fc69ea1b24f68a69
SHA256:
6d8d5a244bb5a23c95653853fec3d04d2bdd2df5cff8cffb9848bddeb6adb081
Size:
172544
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32\ 
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

Is the Process "perfmon.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
Latest new variant of the file with name "perfmon.exe" was discovered 4172 days ago. Our database contains 16 variants of the file "perfmon.exe" with final rating Safe and zero variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

User Reviews of the "perfmon.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "perfmon.exe"

  • SAFErating from user 2472567@mail.ru for file C:\Windows\System32\perfmon.exe

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\perfmon.exe (Variant: 283389)

    If this file comes from Microsoft Windows, it is the Resource and Performance Monitor - a monitor of system resources, which gives the user a global information about CPU and system resources. In fact there are two utilities together - Performance Monitor and Resource Monitor. This executable is located in both \System32\perfmon.exe and \SysWOW64\perfmon.exe executables. As the context help for this utility says :
    "You can use Performance Monitor to view performance data either in real time or from a log file."
    "The new Resource Monitor lets you view detailed real-time information about hardware resources (CPU, disk, network, and memory) and system resources (including handles and modules) in use by the operating system, services, and running applications."

  • SAFErating from user sukegawa for file C:\Windows\System32\perfmon.exe

  • SAFErating from user kajmik for file C:\Windows\System32\perfmon.exe (Variant: 503959)

    "perfmon.exe" is the Microsoft Resource and Performance Monitor.