cleanmgr.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Windows Disk Cleanup - removes temporary files, system cache, and other unnecessary data to free disk space.
cleanmgr.exe is the 228th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 58,468 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- c304a9223e9a668545543c68fae40fb913475f211f50764851c9669537be59f819.18%
- b8555df84be369161fd26a72c416e981de1259c319c9bd08e576f24dd43c868416.64%
- 7fdc7edfb2494493fef30ef61aafe4fea18fe6c8fc0d784df3d09d1131c4998d10.74%
- 2c4825ee994f6a9d85011fed271a3df092e6394d277fc8baca9d3c19c373cf5410.27%
- acd2cbfb4c9fb8fe20c21a7ec99445d1426cee90ff3091115eb4c9484b69ea9d8.2%
- 1bdab94440132410d1ab623ded8f2427b34c233a063a150617af271b9394025b7.72%
- 87d5153bec20f9b2e61fb6c6e4f0e49e48ae50691912ce793a599299d31ef6716.36%
- a43c79ecae0d4726157fbb2e9e2e314d3622201678b56db514aae50ea84a09f96.25%
- aa5016a3f28f312e00679bfb9a6b66e4888c9f0c1453ffb69917df46f65396a76.16%
- 6fe69bc1a0496a331d215fed0da35d95fd3117041334f4ebc85bb57e4f60c2542.12%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe99.64%
- userinit.exe0.18%
- explorer.exe0.13%
- svchost.exe0.05%
- winlogon.exe0.01%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe98.49%
- explorer.exe0.11%
- LTSVC.exe0.06%
- cleanmgr.exe0.05%
- LTTray.exe0.05%
- dllhost.exe0.01%
- RuntimeBroker.exe<0.01%
Top Children
- DismHost.exe89.34%
- wermgr.exe10.57%
- cleanmgr.exe0.09%
- lpksetup.exe<0.01%
- WerFault.exe<0.01%
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