Defrag.exe
by Microsoft
System Utility
Summary
Windows Disk Defragmenter - optimizes disk performance by reorganizing fragmented files on HDD volumes.
Defrag.exe is the 204th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 70,442 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
204th
most commonly executed Windows program
70,442
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 126ac765829b6b3a7ea65d686fb2e2075ab0357d40e55ce6d0250ffb7b24208729.88%
- e12f5a5804519a4c8f4eda5b27b3477d89aa4b80e5d9bfa359c1d6794d94796514.02%
- 74ca30a136fbb0087d1c5d0dc69e06b67218108a627cd5f266299fd64310151c10.86%
- 7a18dbbe6ca138389424a7b2c0135ba4a7541c33e0443227f3cf505b58b52a859.68%
- e3682c4487424b3484c57c66d4450b0fc6ef33b12f333487bd52fcff810eee247.89%
- 2630901b1b24ede6aa117163bb738b90921d3d67f5aeb233cac0715a836bace36.81%
- 14bd3078ad7f3aab8feb6fa157de11cd33e63d92216c010ddeb90e780660cfe15.56%
- f3653821e5dbb52c9b7f62a36a810eed6ca16cef6372b3c91518cb92d2932ba83.66%
- d90df37806e6f4a59d51b2d6fedfdaf129436c4a0bc27dc271650b53b48480533.02%
- 62e449589e1f082e8de3fa4d775871e1c66a272e3bd1fe5cc33eeeb40351cd132.26%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe96.17%
- cscript.exe3.35%
- wininit.exe0.47%
- svchost.exe0.01%
- userinit.exe<0.01%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe59.41%
- LTSVC.exe25.57%
- cscript.exe13.45%
- services.exe0.37%
- RuntimeBroker.exe<0.01%
- explorer.exe<0.01%
Top Children
- conhost.exe99.97%
- schtasks.exe0.02%
- Integrator.exe<0.01%
- AppVShNotify.exe<0.01%
- MavInject32.exe<0.01%
- PerfBoost.exe<0.01%
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.