What is the "smss.exe" ? Variant 51670

Our database contains 1129 different files for filename smss.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the smss.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name smss.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows NT Session Manager. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 1 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process smss.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Windows NT Session Manager
Version:: 5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
MD5:: 7763d73255ad4046fa999d42eaf22c26
SHA1:: e5cb3bc3ad69ff621b6cc172a1280dee4f198c68
SHA256:: 152d423142c9f45d9f13d19ab616dfe43bc1ee37cc99f2a670fdfac7e7216582
Size:: 45568
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows XP
Occurence:: Low

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SAFErating from user MikeOne (Variant: 51670)
smss.exe is in most cases the Windows Session Manager subsystem which is responsible for starting the user session or launching the winlogon.exe and csrss.exe processes and setting system variables. smss.exe is started by system thread and waits for either winlogon.exe or csrss.exe to end. If this happens "normally", the system shuts down. In other case, smss.exe hangs the system (stop responding).
Session Manager Subsystem, or smss.exe, is a component of the Microsoft Windows NT operating system and successor operating systems. It is executed during the startup process of Windows NT, Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista." - check more on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Manager_Subsystem

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SAFErating from user Berkut598 for file C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe (Variant: 40746619)
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SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe (Variant: 600202)
smss.exe is in most cases the Windows Session Manager subsystem which is responsible for starting the user session or launching the winlogon.exe and csrss.exe processes and setting system variables. smss.exe is started by system thread and waits for either winlogon.exe or csrss.exe to end. If this happens "normally", the system shuts down. In other case, smss.exe hangs the system (stop responding).
Session Manager Subsystem, or smss.exe, is a component of the Microsoft Windows NT operating system and successor operating systems. It is executed during the startup process of Windows NT, Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista." - check more on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Manager_Subsystem