Estimated safety rating

backgroundtaskhost.exe may be a dangerous program, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. It triggers too many of the "probable danger" flags described bellow. It is not yet known if backgroundtaskhost.exe is malware or an ok program which doesn't harm your PC. Please be careful with this application.

Executable file path

The default filename and directory where this application is stored is
C:\Windows\System32\BackgroundTaskHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is da7063b17dbb8bbb3015351016868006.

Is running as a service

This application does NOT operate as a Windows service. This is normally a good sign.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This app runs in 32-bit mode. It does not use the entire set of features of modern PC processors. This ordinarily happens because the publishers did not upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

Digitally signed

The digital certificate is missing from this program. The authors did not bother to sign it. This is probably bad.

Can be uninstalled

This application does NOT have an uninstall routine set up in registry.