PIconStartup.exe
Summary
PI Console Startup - launches PI monitoring console at startup.
PIconStartup.exe is the 834th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 3,523 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IMSS and it is most often launched by runonce.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IMSS98.55%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\AppUp.IntelManagementandSecurityStatus_2219.3.0.0_x64__8j3eq9eme6ctt\PIconStartup0.94%
- C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IMSS0.43%
- C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\AppUp.IntelManagementandSecurityStatus_2316.5.0.0_x64__8j3eq9eme6ctt\PIconStartup0.09%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 74acdc32472406e91cbba493c6fc6673ba5996e3c9918c7e8775ad0efc5943e636.76%
- 0ee1343e9e218a81c53a5ae9035fe8fce14a5293206a1abbbbe50c2a1c43eaae9.62%
- 623783142a4c371c73b9d14360f8b86bcbdcc8f43b3b7b4bba6ab34f09d067258.57%
- 705a31350cbc69248e03b6174b92605bc1176aa77b6c67dc0ac14680a7247a225.54%
- ce52dc224f12fa71e399127590c9c417a7fc6d8e58b7d3ff0175dc4aaf52f3ed5.28%
- a0a7f35f7e34fe51e587bb11423be436985fb601448094061f0c4c4f50bc32644.74%
- 93f78069b5d3ef76fecda509696f81cfd71a9059b47f647fcf4eb1b000d5f9a64.54%
- 6c18a2a98a1424fd1865c0fa9fba0ea4e977ba8f61888e7acb29a1cf900d518a4.03%
- e3c8bfbb918afe742cd065452a0683fbb0877bf9707aa93a1efa9e3e355565133.58%
- dec8510ec92c8bab1b8c885e85413825d99e1a32090ec84d07041adea830c7cc2.92%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- explorer.exe73.09%
- services.exe26.91%
Top Parents
- runonce.exe68.6%
- svchost.exe30.38%
- sihost.exe1.02%
Top Children
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.