What is the "wdfmgr.exe" ? Variant 731949

Our database contains 154 different files for filename wdfmgr.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the wdfmgr.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name wdfmgr.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Windows User Mode Driver Manager. This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process wdfmgr.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Windows User Mode Driver Manager
Version:: 5.2.3790.3959
MD5:: 066bf9a2eaa05ddad047932207b9fea3
SHA1:: 88b81164116bc824415db1a9049ae520457bf322
SHA256:: 2e188bce63091bb6a4ab8cb18cc42c9eda705c04573d79678b20c0acee6c2edb
Size:: 39424
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows Server 2003
Occurence:: Medium

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SAFErating from user baxti1965 for file C:\Windows\System32\wdfmgr.exe
SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\wdfmgr.exe (Variant: 18868811)
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."