What is the "wdfmgr.exe" ?

Our database contains 154 different files for filename wdfmgr.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wdfmgr.exe. This files most often belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description Windows User Mode Driver Manager. 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 wdfmgr.exe.

This executable is a part of the MS Windows, it serves as a Windows User Mode Driver Manager, mainly can be spotted with functionality related with the Windows Media Player. This Driver Manager is part of the Windows User Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) - this framework and the driver manager are responsible for encapsulating the used hardware drivers and they also handle the possible crashes of those drivers.

More information about this technology can be found on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_User_Mode_Driver_Framework 

"The first version of the UMDF was shipped as part of Windows Media Player version 10 on 2004-10-12. Code-named "Crescent", it was designed to support the Media Transfer Protocol driver, and no public interfaces or documentation were provided for it. Later, Microsoft decided to turn UMDF into a device driver development platform."

wdfmgr.exe Process

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

Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Windows User Mode Driver Manager
Version:
5.2.3790.1230 built by: dnsrv(bld4act)
MD5:
ab0a7ca90d9e3d6a193905dc1715ded0
SHA1:
681ba7f162bf3799a49996529b587c9fa4b34247
SHA256:
ca764a2b92e727e3398134cd50d5622b4ec387436a3644063da1d114ce63bd64
Size:
38912
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows XP
Occurence:
High oc2

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

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Latest new variant of the file with name "wdfmgr.exe" was discovered 4042 days ago. Our database contains 10 variants of the file "wdfmgr.exe" with final rating Safe and 3 variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

User Reviews of the "wdfmgr.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "wdfmgr.exe"

  • SAFErating from user baxti1965 for file C:\Windows\System32\wdfmgr.exe

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\WINDOWS\system32\wdfmgr.exe (Variant: 19009223)

    This executable is a part of the MS Windows, it serves as a Windows User Mode Driver Manager, mainly can be spotted with functionality related with the Windows Media Player. This Driver Manager is part of the Windows User Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) - this framework and the driver manager are responsible for encapsulating the used hardware drivers and they also handle the possible crashes of those drivers.
    More information about this technology can be found on Wikipedia :
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_User_Mode_Driver_Framework
    "The first version of the UMDF was shipped as part of Windows Media Player version 10 on 2004-10-12. Code-named "Crescent", it was designed to support the Media Transfer Protocol driver, and no public interfaces or documentation were provided for it. Later, Microsoft decided to turn UMDF into a device driver development platform."

  • SAFErating from user Mindconnect2020 for file C:\Windows\System32\wdfmgr.exe

  • SAFErating from user Lafita for file C:\Windows\System32\wdfmgr.exe (Variant: 414)

    Aparentemente este programa é um gerenciador de usuarios do windows. É Seguro!