Creative Cloud.exe
Summary
Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop - manages Creative Cloud app installation, updates, and sync.
Creative Cloud.exe is the 1024th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,924 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Creative Cloud\ACC and it is most often launched by runonce.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Creative Cloud\ACC79.91%
- C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Creative Cloud\ACC20.09%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 957579115e0a497e315f2c22db10f15e50f0cb02a56f7377ff822a6faa6cb11219.51%
- 6f8e84210757ff4b67fffc6848424af80d7c5ec8a97c84b97070c1f456ba8e9a18.75%
- 3a00b62cd516aebf3a0efde5dc506b653bd745cebf9b279db1a01f631347747511.28%
- a2fe54688573202da0237f179180d317c19704253aa0e05bb8776e6a64a1bd577.57%
- bcfd229facbab56c2475b36dc6462f5a88fb607b786c932a7973b68ae301248f5.29%
- 641b721764e59962621ef4108f6d7cc419bb1b9d64755caf6d0305c417118a033.81%
- 5d134533db0f98e27bde6ef117ef095f3b20a38c0029e79483d00d0d320ea0cf3.65%
- 18f19e00527065ba22d8467ae7a8f8bd6ad073fcc12acfbb3ae95028eda5f1ac3.6%
- 9b37b516b58b2c879906be2b7681e653cf7a9db53840ebe0886968b715ddc2843.49%
- 42b6be677c6b69857537cc5d062df7e2b47e092a5384e169b2e5ec6d80511ee73.27%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe76.03%
- userinit.exe19.8%
- chrome.exe0.43%
- Creative Cloud.exe0.14%
- firefox.exe0.14%
- Illustrator.exe0.14%
- Photoshop.exe0.14%
- winlogon.exe0.14%
- dllhost.exe0.07%
Top Parents
- runonce.exe78.29%
- explorer.exe17.19%
- Creative Cloud.exe0.57%
- WerFault.exe0.05%
Top Children
- Adobe CEF Helper.exe29.11%
- AdobeIPCBroker.exe26.83%
- CCLibrary.exe3.92%
- WerFault.exe0.1%
- CCXProcess.exe0.06%
- Creative Cloud.exe0.06%
- chrome.exe0.04%
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.