setup_wm.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Microsoft Windows Media configuration utility for media component setup
setup_wm.exe is the 2407th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 185 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player and it is most often launched by wmplayer.exe.
2407th
most commonly executed Windows program
185
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- e9aa4be6fba41a1a92379f128f259b786da094fd3307d374af9349411059b93f30.91%
- 0576fef208e1e6ed35ba7b1fd38f27ee4c8d7f87c3f42c542a8b010eebabddd125.45%
- 202174466e1b95e601a0f93af9131811123ca43ca77cc37079b8151526e5d2b824.24%
- f02960f2ced11dd8b9630f22035b894585d76db0946a2c170c53dcc5a1dcd2c710.91%
- fba35a87dd152d0095435f5ab941694afc0e35f811cb5877c7230ef6b187489f1.82%
- 0ee4935d6036df4e40e7e622cf13b4e12211968683a394021488711a5adca7281.21%
- 6c332a156cf615cf2c46925d752d66415b88b5902c421c0d68e44b38aa17e17a1.21%
- b7e8f2e0dd4800b01a3f9b2113c47b12e1881a7ac6515261aac2c07f18872a091.21%
- 14878c6277b77e457e304c39d834bb45eda0d1b6b0a1453650f224765f0fcc4b0.61%
- 20bcb69524ea04f03887390d453418f9c3b884746b6e0e3b448e3c139ebb16f40.61%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe68.55%
- explorer.exe16.35%
- OpenWith.exe3.14%
- chrome.exe1.26%
- OUTLOOK.EXE1.26%
- RtkNGUI64.exe1.26%
- iexplore.exe0.63%
Top Parents
- wmplayer.exe99.46%
Top Children
- wmplayer.exe61.97%
- unregmp2.exe36.62%
- WerFault.exe1.41%
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.