What is the "wininit.exe" ?

Our database contains 368 different files for filename wininit.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wininit.exe. This files most often belongs to product Sistema operacional Microsoft® Windows®. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description Aplicativo de Inicialização do Windows. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 14 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process wininit.exe.

wininit.exe Process

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

Product:
Sistema operacional Microsoft® Windows®
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Aplicativo de Inicialização do Windows
Version:
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
MD5:
94355c28c1970635a31b3fe52eb7ceba
SHA1:
2de5c051c0d7d8bcc14b1ca46be8ab9756f29320
SHA256:
c4e98f07170cec69cacdd5cedb8927e48a2a299cb1b8cda87526e768af6174f0
Size:
129024
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2

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

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
63% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Latest new variant of the file with name "wininit.exe" was discovered 4043 days ago. Our database contains 31 variants of the file "wininit.exe" with final rating Safe and 13 variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
Filename "wininit.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.

User Reviews of the "wininit.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "wininit.exe"

  • SAFErating from user Mike7Radon for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe (Variant: 43352520)

    C:WindowsSystem32wininit.exe

  • SAFErating from user viyia228 for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe

  • SAFErating from user rovihegran for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exeflag es

  • SAFErating from user Admin for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe (Variant: 12228899)

    Windows 8 version of Windows Start-Up Application

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe (Variant: 10115291)

    "The Wininit file is an .ini file that lists all of the changes to be made to Windows when you restart the computer after installing a program. The Wininit.exe file is the program file that starts the .ini file. It can be run only when the computer restarts..." - check more about possible problems and info on Microsoft's help pages : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299332

  • SAFErating from user theo77186 for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe (Variant: 698704)

    This is the Windows launcher

  • SAFErating from user UPieper for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe

  • SAFErating from user ramses for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe

  • SAFErating from user Moraxv for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe

  • SAFErating from user kajmik for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe (Variant: 500665)

    "wininit.exe" file was made by Microsoft and is core system process. The file was created to allow to run and process commands stored in the file WinInit.ini while the computer is still booting.

  • SAFErating from user Tom for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe (Variant: 2161)

    Windows Start-Up Application, Windows Vista 32

  • SAFErating from user Admin for file C:\Windows\System32\wininit.exe