SndVol.exe
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Windows Volume Mixer - per-application volume control UI.
SndVol.exe is the 1237th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,186 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\System32 and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
1237th
most commonly executed Windows program
1,186
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\System32100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- a632ef1a1490d31d76f13997ee56f4f75796bf9e366c76446857e9ae855f410364.76%
- 8b72fc4ca330772da1236d6a809452db4f6fb3ce62f80f2b5750e65a74d799d828.56%
- 2726f31f77663cf322ad4627f4f84308550ba5b4b11ff1675271edd6c9bf568a2.9%
- 9520ffcee5ece79190dcccc9020e212d43aa6f58e2e633e2a5ed701e909abb6f1.16%
- d98db8339eb1b93a7345eecac2b7290fa7156e3e12b7632d876bd0fd1f31ec660.87%
- 496feebc8bece33f0d6b5f11b7d03a6a7826ea3d72ac253fbc528c5c3aee72ff0.68%
- 68b6ced01f5dfc2bc9556b005f4fff235a3d02449ad9f9e4de627c0e1424d6050.58%
- 3689a43858db4845b5da04ec5140e0616118d56a99f0c498ed5a90c4e9998cab0.29%
- 145bae874e61779034b98c78d2318a8e5ee4fdb860ef454dc6110f63d5c5ae4d0.1%
- 5be12686c75a1f034eac11031a7440ea40731298df5f7296b2c5462028793bf30.1%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe75.66%
- explorer.exe21%
- winlogon.exe1.95%
- svchost.exe0.83%
- WerFault.exe0.56%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe55.63%
- RtkNGUI64.exe43.53%
- SndVol.exe0.25%
- rundll32.exe0.08%
Top Children
- rundll32.exe70%
- SndVol.exe30%
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.