sidebar.exe

by Microsoft

Operating System

Summary

Windows Desktop Gadgets sidebar (legacy)

sidebar.exe is the 2468th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 173 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.

2468th

most commonly executed Windows program

173

observed executions

low

statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar100%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

76cb27ef7b27e5636eda9d95229519b2a2870729a0bb694f1fd11cd602bac4dc100%

Process Ancestry

Top Grandparents

userinit.exe100%

Top Parents

explorer.exe100%

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.