CodeHelper.exe

by Microsoft
Development Tool

Summary

Visual Studio Code helper process

CodeHelper.exe is the 1641st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 534 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2018\www\filesystem\impls\appshell\node\win32 and it is most often launched by node.exe.

1641st
most commonly executed Windows program
534
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2018\www\filesystem\impls\appshell\node\win3279.78%
  • C:\Users\...12.36%
  • C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017\www\filesystem\impls\appshell\node\win327.3%
  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\services\files\node\watcher\win320.37%
  • C:\...0.19%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 6b7eb5c2a0c71efd02d861cd4e9fffa7d98168242a6ccbd9909480fc9bcd2d2a55.99%
  • 935fb6f81ddae416ef6f308db90e7bbbe5973ac94e04d818cee6202d907ea4ad23.6%
  • cb6974d3b7eea5a2ed2e45013c8314e54a962e820965412419e9a9e84086dfc17.3%
  • 68034be15195ae1dd8f0538a383528e9ab56f24d35fbca8dc58fa0406ce0a4ec2.25%
  • 99434cb2085c025af798117ad9e61e9e7af5a295ac65057768f65e27c59021fb2.06%
  • 23825b791c5ab16e5859f04b3d2ad4b210aaa7f6b7ec69c6c95d9579dde67ac70.94%
  • 04e11e7f4a8762c833fe452494794bc951cb25a5ce912c5470f5e132e5168f2c0.75%
  • 409ce551ef344c40c1a3961ebc0b361f8f90c1383481f076fece4fb24abcd37b0.75%
  • 8135aa734d8ccf6c1bb87278f179aafe7795d780181916f6c5d2be68c399f0110.75%
  • c5a98774d4c74e340a7e728b5f7111ea422bb00e466765bfd751f8714695c1b10.75%

Process Ancestry

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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.