Estimated safety rating

backgroundtaskhost.exe may be a dangerous program, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. This program triggers many of the "possible danger" criteria described bellow. It is not yet known if backgroundtaskhost.exe is malware or not which doesn't cause harm the PC. Please be careful with it.

Executable file path

This application is normally stored on disk in C:\Windows\System32\backgroundTaskHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is 5e715b598e74b7b413f2add4eca6b360.

Is running as a service

This program does NOT run as a Windows service. This is normally a good sign.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This program runs in 32-bit mode. It does not exploit the entire power of nowadays' PC processors. This ordinarily happens because the publishers did not bother to upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

This application does NOT have a removal routine stored in registry.