mighost.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Windows Migration Host - handles data and settings migration during major Windows upgrades.
mighost.exe is the 305th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 31,830 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\... and it is most often launched by setuphost.exe.
305th
most commonly executed Windows program
31,830
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\...86.14%
- C:\Windows\System32\migwiz13.86%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 313050f79fd42e4dab69b816d1ec28840544f144826ccb537b88808198ec1fed23.43%
- 92fc726fc055fc7977795e3327b00a125eef98349b78aa2dbaefa11f0f1b76df15.52%
- db83a6f46f7dac44e6f9e0e2d79764ec1c32319e518fb0de8e3508f5418ddbf514.61%
- 273e9f2dfdc1e27623541cf706edd73ba0a3cdfa32a18b0ce8cc8e6807901ac914.33%
- d8f19b6e0372e54473bbc2911534dc8a9196f4eae337e68e9f2e58416c852fca7.41%
- 34419a9bf1aab2bf04c322fa3b0697302b13d1abd1300e2616758a2a664ac4d13.76%
- 4b459f70524a0ba16c7f771473c60b1faa77ed00d242b7a3e083e67fd8d792443.7%
- ea193f311a0807f07ef7c07f2d031e80c591935f30a736747882a8eced31c19d2.4%
- 6737acb9ae32070421c6bfdb2ccbb44aab7ca19dbd890d688af895575157db6d2.11%
- 54f9e04062e486e0b6a5e60e50703d84acbce0603926bb1e841876d70fd7fe9c2.01%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- WindowsUpdateBox.exe59.6%
Top Parents
- setuphost.exe73.78%
- dllhost.exe13.86%
- setupplatform.exe12.35%
Top Children
- conhost.exe99.43%
- WerFault.exe0.11%
- regsvr32.exe0.03%
- esrv.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.