ClassicStartMenu.exe
by Ivo Beltchev
Application
Summary
Classic Start Menu replacement
ClassicStartMenu.exe is the 1508th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 699 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Classic Shell and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
1508th
most commonly executed Windows program
699
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Classic Shell100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 8aab5e31a4f4056843ec0896bf3f0a91604ff39f4ad439f64d2e882e72511a9858.51%
- cdc1f6a66e638f63c40dbd061afc71ae2a5fd6cc4c2fdce3bd9e71892213ac3430.62%
- 0c219d7a5fcd4e0252c815373e67f843dbd7356fae7ab836c451068b51438fe710.87%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe99.14%
- WerFault.exe0.57%
- winlogon.exe0.29%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe100%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.