Code.exe
by Microsoft
Development Tool
Summary
Visual Studio Code - Microsoft source code editor with debugging, Git, and extension support.
Code.exe is the 879th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 3,058 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Users\... and it is most often launched by Code.exe.
879th
most commonly executed Windows program
3,058
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Users\...96.86%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code2.35%
- C:\...0.78%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 5a20167b49fe02da3e08bdb60a57442dacbb03b46b24817cac0731f3a7c6a40f7.01%
- 8a59d632c428415a2c1b3cf08f7ac466c2542becad28b8b99bd8382c94f9027f6.69%
- 0b94bb64b00da8132306da88b42af3a0ebb6f557200c7ea55f73ee72f901e6e46.52%
- 558cb39e7d02fbb26e3ad8d1ea26455e7ef376bf3e9c4d904d9c9f6ce4d1d13e6.46%
- cc63db28f573ed02a9e81d8b25124444c8bfdad42bea1c7d63ff1c0321b4301f5.7%
- 604b0839ef60536464ada05893ce03008b507b6d2b3ad07772a5b638d578842a5.47%
- 82752d0ef59995a28b0b307c5c794b97f3c422ea8db962ee19ea180124d944635.11%
- f640564c98d2232dd980df9a4593da9b016b91b70576a15da1780a0dee5d66894.62%
- 53fcb0eafb56bd4d54a01e94062451e8772d80bf544a3691bf01cbf4717f39864.49%
- 19ea726d6087401c86c4d20f9bea7b94972235091e07747bdd36f9b0ff04cb4d3.77%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- Code.exe44.44%
- explorer.exe29.63%
- userinit.exe7.41%
Top Parents
- Code.exe90.32%
- explorer.exe8.14%
- OpenWith.exe0.46%
- cmd.exe0.26%
- chrome.exe0.16%
- sh.exe0.1%
- brave.exe0.03%
- pwsh.exe0.03%
Top Children
- git.exe30.32%
- Code.exe24.07%
- go.exe15.41%
- wsl.exe12.22%
- cmd.exe4.84%
- rg.exe1.26%
- conhost.exe1.12%
- ssh.exe0.64%
- powershell.exe0.31%
- python.exe0.3%
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.