chcp.com

by Microsoft

System Utility

Summary

Windows Change Code Page command - displays or changes the active console code page for character encoding.

chcp.com is the 261st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 48,447 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by cmd.exe.

261st

most commonly executed Windows program

48,447

observed executions

medium

statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

C:\Windows\System3299.82%
C:\Windows\SysWOW640.18%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

bbe1338bdb48136b090718bbaf6345b8a6a31998ea97a6dd54996211bf5185ab53.81%
c5d29fd4a61366c3f1dcbf5066254de119ca1cf743e1c637310b001ba86b2a4520.56%
025622772afb1486f4f7000b70cc51a20a640474d6e4dbe95a70beb3fd53ad4012.52%
c6c6afb19bc8fd23ddccf6bb8e372b475f90e4757a5a7f021298862854bd79ca5.52%
d669e9dc381759520bbfbbd8ecff201af34914326cba580e611b35702c1d34bd4.67%
ab5581453ba81f7ef13a7800ce2f94b46f74e36991b6ff61115c353b025ae53b0.93%
27a4e9f4699e4e592f385dc018e4eb4d7bdaae437434237db1350b14851c8bf90.87%
a4b7008f01941927476eb733e80808eabbb9e8051bd4bb20444daebf88fe277e0.38%
9fdbdf88cf2bb2794c416e3083553f2898ac9dc92dfac2478b4c1df667df7c740.32%
1262351d764fb4baa16acff7fb89d9715cff7b4641eec1ab4dffba2e7a53d79b0.18%

Process Ancestry

Top Grandparents

Top Parents

Top Children

conhost.exe100%

Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.

Security Analysis

What does chcp.com normally do?

Used in batch scripts to set console code page (e.g., chcp 65001 for UTF-8). Common in internationalized environments.

False positive notes

Very common in batch scripts. Harmless utility.

Related Processes

cmd.exe

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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.