wmpnscfg.exe
Summary
Windows Media Player Network Sharing Configuration - configures media sharing for Windows Media Player DLNA streaming.
wmpnscfg.exe is the 871st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 3,129 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player and it is most often launched by explorer.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 10888bb9c3799e1e8b010c0f9088ced376aad63a509fce1727c457b022cdc71799.97%
- 078e2cfc890a1492aad56a62b2a3958687010d1c741add189af148044404972b0.03%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- userinit.exe99.74%
- WerFault.exe0.22%
- services.exe0.04%
Top Parents
- explorer.exe99.74%
- services.exe0.22%
- svchost.exe0.03%
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.