What is the "taskmgr.exe" ? Variant 1797

Our database contains 2112 different files for filename taskmgr.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the taskmgr.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name taskmgr.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows TaskManager. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 2 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process taskmgr.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Windows TaskManager
Version:: 5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2105)
MD5:: 2cd1c3506a85b38e2d17e61aded175c4
SHA1:: 811d06dc5c7b530a5f0bd07c50607e402da43d59
SHA256:: f899e8c466b518346d47c7cd56f6d4ae3eed38369b8e38b6badf0227b93e7f82
Size:: 135680
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows XP
Occurence:: High

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
Sophos Anti-Virus	2016-09-06 20:42:44
AVG Internet Security	2016-09-05 21:20:25
Advanced SystemCare Ultimate	2016-09-05 21:20:25
ESET Smart Security 9.0.402.1	2016-09-03 16:20:09
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise+AntiSpyware Enterprise	2016-09-01 12:31:58
Panda Free Antivirus	2016-08-29 12:05:06
avast! Antivirus	2016-08-28 02:01:38
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition	2016-08-24 23:07:22
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0	2016-07-26 13:30:35
Cezurity Antivirus Scanner	2016-07-10 13:43:08

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Is the Process "taskmgr.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 "taskmgr.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.

92% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Safe .
8% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Threat .

User Reviews of the "taskmgr.exe"

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SAFErating from user Admin for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe
SAFErating from user McT (Variant: 1797)
Task Manager allows you to view your on-going processes; their status, etc. this also allows you access to kill process without the default 20 sec wait windows has when you end a process

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Reviews for different files with filename "C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe"

SAFErating from user gasReport for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe (Variant: 40535359)
This file is the classical Windows Task Manager. taskmgr.exe is the default Windows System Task Manager which can be accessed via CTRL+ALT+DEL (CTRL+SHIFT+DEL) options. The description how to use it and possible troubleshooting is described on this article from Microsoft : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323527
Alternative for this manager is free System Explorer which provides more information about the system.
SAFErating from user Alex for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe (Variant: 33794441)
Directory: C:WindowsSystem32
SAFErating from user larryjohnson for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe
SAFErating from user vito for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe
SAFErating from user berthu for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe
SAFErating from user Boris for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe
SAFErating from user System for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe (Variant: 544938)
taskmgr.exe is the default Windows System Task Manager which can be accessed via CTRL+ALT+DEL (CTRL+SHIFT+DEL) options. Alternative for this manager is free System Explorer which provides more information about the system.
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe (Variant: 3385986)
This file is the classical Windows Task Manager. taskmgr.exe is the default Windows System Task Manager which can be accessed via CTRL+ALT+DEL (CTRL+SHIFT+DEL) options. The description how to use it and possible troubleshooting is described on this article from Microsoft : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323527
Alternative for this manager is free System Explorer which provides more information about the system.
SAFErating from user alexander_wsz for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe (Variant: 19524811)
This file is the classical Windows Task Manager. taskmgr.exe is the default Windows System Task Manager which can be accessed via CTRL+ALT+DEL (CTRL+SHIFT+DEL) options. The description how to use it and possible troubleshooting is described on this article from Microsoft : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323527
Alternative for this manager is free System Explorer which provides more information about the system.
SAFErating from user Root for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe (Variant: 3385986)
Windows Task Manager Its most time Safe..
SAFErating from user Oneiro for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe (Variant: 12024298)
askmgr.exe is the default Windows System Task Manager which can be accessed via CTRL+ALT+DEL (CTRL+SHIFT+DEL) options. Alternative for this manager is free System Explorer which provides more information about the system.