What is the "presentationfontcache.exe" ?

Our database contains 65 different files for filename presentationfontcache.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name presentationfontcache.exe. This files most often belongs to product Microsoft® .NET Framework. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description PresentationFontCache.exe. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 18 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process presentationfontcache.exe.

This file is the main executable for the  Presentation Font Cache from Microsoft.NET Framework. PresentationFontCache.exe "optimizes performance of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications by caching commonly used font data. WPF applications will start this service if it is not already running. It can be disabled, though doing so will degrade the performance of WPF applications." It can be disabled as a service, if the CPU load is too high and no WPF application is running. Check more here : http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/a3c8de8b-cf6a-444f-94f8-d0468fba5d41/presentationfontcacheexe-?forum=wpf and here http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/how-to-disable-the-presentation-font-cache/ed5cb19b-9cd2-4440-8ba5-24a360f3e60d

presentationfontcache.exe Process

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

Product:
Microsoft® .NET Framework
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
PresentationFontCache.exe
Version:
3.0.6920.5011
MD5:
a8b7f3818ab65695e3a0bb3279f6dce6
SHA1:
abe2a3987b4e9b86b84c7ea9b58a5848e9a12d02
SHA256:
89fcf10f599767e67a1e011753e34da44eaa311f105dbf69549009ed932a60f0
Size:
42856
Directory:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.0\WPF
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2
Digital Signature:
Microsoft Corporation

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

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
13% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Latest new variant of the file with name "presentationfontcache.exe" was discovered 4457 days ago. Our database contains 21 variants of the file "presentationfontcache.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.
Filename "presentationfontcache.exe" is used by Microsoft Windows System files. Many threats uses filenames of System Processes to camouflage itself. You should consider suspected any file which uses system filename and is not stored in system directory or has invalid file version information. Correct system file contains full file version information from Microsoft.

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