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What is hpqtoa~1.exe? HPQToaster Module?

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Purpose: HPQTOA~1.EXE - Associated with Hewlett-Packard laptops bought on or after April 2006. Toaster is a shell script that improves functionality.

hpqtoa~1.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.


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hpqtoa~1.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
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Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.09%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 3 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
hpqtoa~1.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xb574d62402d330527e5df6565050553b 8/31/2021 10:10:00 PM Unknown 1, 0, 0, 6 HPQToaster Module 504 KB
2 Status 0xddb133a6703d96643ec799db84004bdc 8/8/2021 1:40:00 AM Unknown 1, 0, 0, 7 HPQToaster Module 480 KB
3 Status 0x9876623329c382afbab5b9d8099bd203 6/29/2020 5:12:00 AM Unknown 1, 0, 1, 4 HPQToaster Module 480 KB
4 Status 0x92e3817bfa1bf16d64c446f75f4dca20 4/20/2015 10:39:00 PM Unknown 1, 0, 0, 4 HPQToaster Module 472 KB
5 Status 0x1d03e84b8c49d6e0e550fcf5d3b34324 9/15/2011 9:27:00 PM Unknown 1, 0, 1, 2 HPQToaster Module 480 KB
6 Status 0x2e4ff77890eeb5b90bd34911827e337e 4/14/2008 10:34:00 PM Unknown Unknown HPQToaster Module 504 KB
7 Status 0x33eb9b813556b81de492aa59067e1652 12/31/2007 Unknown 1, 0, 0, 1 HPQToaster Module 452 KB


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