Estimated safety rating

microsoft.photos.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 microsoft.photos.exe is a virus or a legit program which doesn't cause harm your PC. We advise you to be careful with this program.

Executable file path

Usually, this program is found in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_2019.19071.17920.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Microsoft.Photos.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this file is dd7cf0d836125084d4871d99506e6130.

Is running as a service

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

Accesses the internet

This program uses the net to communicate. Today this is expected from a program. For example, most of the programs on your PC check for new updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This exe runs as a 32-bit program. It can not benefit of the full power of current PC processors. This is quite normal because the makers did not upgrade it to 64-bit code.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

This application does NOT have an uninstall routine stored in registry.