Windows10Upgrade.exe

by Microsoft
Installer

Summary

Windows 10 upgrade assistant

Windows10Upgrade.exe is the 2161st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 255 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\UpdateAssistant and it is most often launched by UpdateAssistant.exe.

2161st
most commonly executed Windows program
255
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Windows\UpdateAssistant98.82%
  • C:\Windows\UpdateAssistantV21.18%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 353f10ea15387dc5425456439d0e23b6029dbe0cddb4b9c6329e182d1362a3b136.86%
  • b9197e8d145fee004c8ee944d3118284598a92f22823e7acbf5ac2cbfad1f64626.67%
  • a4cc871056a5920d827a99e7ce62ba14378bc6ab6084b7ebfbdd7d7bfd32b24022.35%
  • ff66dcfabc52de6be5e6f014f02de954d520712cbf0679973ac7c1876a180ba79.41%
  • a63308b3ba7b050a68af88e3a235f04f9649116af689e78840cf682b64600b951.57%
  • c19acff79bf6891a735b2f02aaa7d2293b0d2ab977aace4609b2354df91dced11.57%
  • 5c23b9ddf495e88ebe0f6dabbaee7100f628c69583c97b0ee3af51cc721837141.18%
  • fc72d30eb2f8aeb8f3dca2bd0e92c852ee2bfc18f16f59f3ce445a96fccd14ee0.39%

Process Ancestry

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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.