PerfWatson2.exe
by Microsoft
Development Tool
Summary
Visual Studio performance monitoring tool
PerfWatson2.exe is the 1862nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 378 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE and it is most often launched by devenv.exe.
1862nd
most commonly executed Windows program
378
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE65.96%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\IDE20.05%
- D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE10.82%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE1.85%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE0.79%
- D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\IDE0.53%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 4e9ddd056e35f8a022aa87879ea18d97035a8e2b41272adc9de5df09e961bb0c62.99%
- 26cf1b00b117c246da3de2d06e36d5a2f53e19a63025fdc3ea59a6825f79eacd9.6%
- 85c839b4e5841d2987660ab294e73e77cfb5c8fd00e0ba1360259833995257917.63%
- ea3ab5e0e793f73b897bc6b7bad24c20fe1a67484ab609b2ce8535e36bc881116.21%
- 0a4c90f2b842ac29d839c79c2b28f3e1cca40f4bbbc3f4c80ca76a51254e079c4.8%
- e0423658d429e2ccfedf8ce5e5e902f45256a55fc7789d72a8eb3e4af8e758ff4.24%
- 2fc966cc85544570a4ea4ac29369e95a84f81593186d7ccfdc86a979ded211171.41%
- db10b115f77480845ff69ecfbe4000d7990035f4349c06fb10b8beaf90d31d051.13%
- 96f0dd9ef89b168390fcb9e79a6b2e7f80b92bc87f6c47c6ac51c865e87500610.85%
- a9b07b55b249a2393040895e95e7dc8f06a98058c0d9db5364d205ffea7c42620.56%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- Unity.exe63.33%
- explorer.exe23.33%
- OpenWith.exe3.33%
Top Parents
- devenv.exe100%
Top Children
- ngen.exe99.53%
- WerFault.exe0.47%
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.