What is the "wininit.exe" ? Variant 10115291

Our database contains 368 different files for filename wininit.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the wininit.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wininit.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows Start-Up Application. 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 wininit.exe.

wininit.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Windows Start-Up Application
Version:
6.2.8400.0
MD5:
af04db3505b6316458381c1bbcf34d2e
SHA1:
257d7a392edad7442f5e2f82967c3312bfb1389f
SHA256:
33415852b3fd7ae56a99dd03184bed10cc723d0ab87a7c322b8dfce46b788b88
Size:
134144
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 8
Occurence:
High oc2

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
360 Total Security2016-08-28 23:44:17
Windows Defender2016-05-07 04:18:48
Avira Antivirus2015-05-23 03:27:23
avast! Antivirus2015-04-15 10:13:48
Avira Desktop2014-08-07 13:42:52
AVG Internet Security 20122014-07-16 20:18:14
ESET Smart Security 6.02013-08-22 17:15:19
AVG Internet Security 20132013-07-30 17:54:24
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 20132013-06-24 15:07:44
Advanced SystemCare Ultimate2013-03-10 17:22:34
Antivirus shields were enabled and have latest antivirus database.

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

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
100% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Our final rating for this file is Safe. Final rating is 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"

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne (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