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
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe88%
- taskeng.exe11.6%
Top Parents
- UpdateAssistant.exe98.82%
- EOSNotify.exe0.78%
Top Children
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.