startmenuexperiencehost.exe
Summary
Windows Start Menu Experience Host - renders the Start menu and handles search interactions in Windows 10/11.
startmenuexperiencehost.exe is the 617th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 7,278 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy99.96%
- C:\Windows\Temp\...0.04%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 03f57900a9324df23da95a46f58245649b0357f065b7f4128e387507ce9582e627.93%
- cefe2385eb325e15affef9e5e12df5f5b6bf5d1bf2e9826dd7a4f6c219299cea20.03%
- 72e2ad44449c98165ef6797864733cd0cfb76509debc1dd0d8c766032449b4fc13.84%
- 7d00473ed0e5affd24c1b658c0ffb2da386105ce72a4d061f4097d00b13bde349.82%
- d67f4fd3d91d465332e17aa2613cc3559871866351dd0c756c8ecfff0cf000625.48%
- 3124fab4d09b4f93b582e2c4dc821e4924a0dda39cb773175a57202ebce0b4424.66%
- f18fcc5e4ea4275fb97d9b18b7e59d9de6e5df4ff274592eeecd79fecc8aa1c73.23%
- 185339cac3f7a459f91731d7dc1f50b55a19725f05bbf676bd99ba10cfb330103.12%
- ec5f923e60d162c48058b7fde56a85e74e45d979ed923330b07dc32b1adad4732.21%
- 7736397871cf17a2eeaaf7c156e16f9fbe9e24d74b57ce7b70e3162f37580a121.96%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- svchost.exe99.96%
- explorer.exe0.04%
Top Children
- conhost.exe33.33%
- GoogleCrashHandler64.exe16.67%
- GoogleCrashHandler.exe16.67%
- schtasks.exe16.67%
- GoogleUpdate.exe8.33%
- WerFault.exe8.33%
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.