OptionalFeatures.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Windows Optional Features (Turn Windows features on/off)
OptionalFeatures.exe is the 2871st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 110 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
2871st
most commonly executed Windows program
110
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 6b661b7d22613710404684548a05c6652f3a64dd636a458c5d162ab4b549fb8f34.29%
- 7e268e84be367e28d1d97637cc1e024e7740b04c61a21b76021a315d60b535a922.86%
- ab09b14ed18d2874fdb191ecda35dfc52bb6957e0e18b2f8f0f5209ee5d691d212.38%
- ff511c1d4813039bd2b43766d9499fca0b908b713671e5fd18c1f323c8cef0d511.43%
- 912efe8a50daab7a746b0740b7394b05bb01dd4383ee50ca331a1c22a94c80dc5.71%
- 02a15ceafdd0decf772da107fc04b6da29498c9f6c0da5a9c9546ce597f6237d4.76%
- 87f02bbc0198b86c0ac6b76d79d46a8074db0f58641e3f23f760644d79b1aa164.76%
- fa2e741416994f2c1bf9ef7a16b9c4dbf20c84267e3da91ae6f1ad75ee9f49b83.81%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe48.53%
- svchost.exe26.47%
- wscript.exe1.47%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe52.73%
- RuntimeBroker.exe15.45%
- sihost.exe10%
- SystemSettings.exe3.64%
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.