drvinst.exe
Summary
Windows Driver Installation - installs and updates device drivers, invoked by Plug and Play or Windows Update.
drvinst.exe is the 366th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 23,321 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 9087d6239e61e8f7a6605b1a9bb339177eee09e9a21633ea1842f016d1329da628.43%
- 5b9c56e4557b21ef584597589da7a36002097e0aae746421a391e1961276cd5410%
- 2f5cc7aa8e3f95ad69048781eee76d61df68315f5ca1811ea5665fa6734a8ac47.81%
- 8aa128b9019439d525442bcac7849def30976ebc9ee72965ac42260d18d190b36.92%
- cbfecc0bbf10b8107595621c95639d2f5ba1d88d99552d11a2190ccb29ef3ad75.33%
- 823523e1b4bf1dbff1ca7e65c67483b2260f13ad4ab61f6131f84d5b8dbe985f4%
- 58805a3a74acaee8faea249f2a162bd33d3f6d20224691e80b5da9689b7514913.39%
- 4f26a96f6533a909c74a369e98d8909d966a1c3b5fa8e1f775e9b4777150a08c3.32%
- bd35ca1b957c60ea27d310802ceb06cff9d09dc963062986fa9e811123f7a8903.02%
- 395a2fab3a34c908dceb0f112b83496d97389832e9fe8d09f10e90bd5e50bf8a2.46%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe99.95%
- explorer.exe0.02%
- svchost.exe0.02%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe99.88%
- WerFault.exe0.01%
- lync.exe0.01%
- ClipRenew.exe<0.01%
- UpdaterUI.exe<0.01%
- wevtutil.exe<0.01%
Top Children
- rundll32.exe15.58%
- setup.exe9.09%
- schtasks.exe7.27%
- wowreg32.exe6.33%
- net.exe5.66%
- SynTPEnhService.exe4.78%
- regsvr32.exe4.57%
- dbInstaller.exe3.48%
- msiexec.exe2.44%
- sc.exe2.39%
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.