SearchUI.exe
Summary
Windows Search UI (legacy Cortana) - provides the search bar and search experience in the Windows taskbar.
SearchUI.exe is the 351st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 24,678 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy99.98%
- C:\Windows\Temp\...0.02%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 9e21a959a575119174da54f890eca24d373fd57dbc0c232bb7fbe22ce57785d120.32%
- 9b8770c1befb3a8ff4621875c5d9d25aa338d9fc1a9c534c2c10aa9b95814b8b14.27%
- b687ff6085945c547ca780875b72caab418c890eb77c7035d3be609e778e05146.72%
- 19870c667f74d37eba5f02422b24b75c2d835181bc99f1c81facdd5818bd8c8b6.55%
- d5c8579822ecedea4b3580ffd9f1f8d52717e5cfa35d0861f87c19219724defc6.49%
- f4c33d33ecbf013416685afa96f5f44f832bc5a54d7ad9c20bb12ecbf7c4c4b76.08%
- c7e34c47e28ff5d6e6d2e2f764fce2754b52bf024a50968dc830183ffea885a92.24%
- 632c9ef4f26ce0c2aa415e1dc4c1515e0cd2a72422f3f81663ba612752ee6b722.16%
- 4c5901ee8a0454187e63fb29e9b157802b67e1cc0de3148b9b2a9273bf974dbc1.93%
- ae608505fbcfb5647822e77be2b5a3d1e74a06a3e70bfc17ad0ac16220439aaa1.92%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe100%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe99.99%
- explorer.exe0.01%
Top Children
- AuthHost.exe60.51%
- WerFault.exe39.49%
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.