HelpPane.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Microsoft Help and Support pane for accessing Windows help documentation and troubleshooters
HelpPane.exe is the 2890th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 108 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
2890th
most commonly executed Windows program
108
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- c466002d4ea92230bc1cd17ca7051e8c00aedb4ee330e9f67dec94a38eb50bda25.74%
- 486fdb3bb0fac80f70a23f8bd674aea59375bcfa4ceaa98eebfb6d58413d038610.89%
- a80f927c1cf42200a2777121d013c2a4a09403e3fe15559b857cbc6eb489b66e8.91%
- 3f588f2c131534d7dbef38a2c82a4c38298674f998d49ae7c96a42b73358f1be7.92%
- 04daf343f78669685eecc51fa6ce2160e3b28aaf2d3801cef6af37797a01095c5.94%
- 552016ef8396341e1b9ff6309ef256d0d1eb4bc864ee70fdf1601d25a5cf15355.94%
- 44f0637e6788953a4993dbb2b4a45e2d51433f7a6b8dc7eb945f388b1aeffb5c3.96%
- a1ad9018db52a951d7e80b998de7d6ee6b388d4aa1b46535e3176624841868263.96%
- e238e607be357a23f3f2fa68ef7694bed5fdf3b423cf0273d11e43d57f9ae99e3.96%
- 7a5092b330c4acd5d2bd42276a972188004d0d85791ab937c47c3c400100f7eb2.97%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe84.44%
- userinit.exe15.56%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe85.98%
- explorer.exe14.02%
Top Children
- chrome.exe56.1%
- firefox.exe19.51%
- msedge.exe12.2%
- iexplore.exe9.76%
- control.exe2.44%
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.