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What is hplamp.exe? Fast Lamp Warm-up ?

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Vendor Website:      http://www.hp.com/
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

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Purpose: hplamp.exe - Energy Star and Fast Lamp Warm-up background task installed by the drivers for many Hewlett-Packard scanners. This is a buggy piece of software which works on some PCs, and causes "Fatal Exception", "Stack Overflow", or "Invalid Page Fault" errors on others. Not necessary for proper operation.

hplamp.exe uses excessive system and memory resources with no corresponding benefit. Applications such as these should be disabled to improve overall system performance.


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hplamp.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: 0.02%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 3 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
hplamp.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x92f2ee129de40fb3056e1afc0576cf5d 10/12/2016 5:30:00 PM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 41 KB
2 Status 0x62705bc5413ddde4b47f6d3864f9b98e 12/11/2014 2:58:00 AM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 41 KB
3 Status 0xa5ab2858353f81376fe5d27095caa1f5 11/22/2014 9:53:00 PM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 52 KB
4 Status 0x6fde35fc543949ccef74025339a35b8a 7/31/2014 3:50:00 PM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 44 KB
5 Status 0x5cdccc4cd40342a6b6cf260d7f86e059 2/4/2012 3:55:00 PM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 41 KB
6 Status 0x04fc6938063af957909d29fe84575e75 1/28/2012 1:03:00 PM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 44 KB
7 Status 0x381dd4bff578139cb063fc9b302c2896 8/10/2011 9:54:00 PM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 42 KB
8 Status 0x34447903dac662a139f8c7d6691a1f23 3/20/2011 10:28:00 PM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 42 KB
9 Status 0x646ae8b9dfc76a155ed6a3880d337282 2/23/2011 10:30:00 PM Unknown Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 42 KB
10 Status 0x62ab333cef644c3eb9cde1f13fbe90e0 9/3/2010 6:47:00 AM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 44 KB
11 Status 0x0510121bac626852e91f4816da3f974e 6/4/2010 9:13:00 PM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 42 KB
12 Status 0xec3ca2c4999bc0b6f6e0aba208a2d7da 5/4/2010 10:34:00 PM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 41 KB
13 Status 0xc15c28557b919200f3b739bc66ad6862 8/20/2009 3:15:00 AM Unknown Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 41 KB
14 Status 0xd356f95313c6e47c1a96ab57e4bcc937 6/3/2009 9:23:00 AM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 44 KB
15 Status 0x13f97e3cff9807868815ceed1fbf3300 5/30/2009 8:03:00 PM Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 41 KB
16 Status 0x92f7703aa47d10462aa7f83cc4728d01 5/17/2009 9:27:00 PM Unknown Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 42 KB
17 Status 0x3d85d282a6944180e6ebea18d9df1dd8 4/28/2009 1:19:00 AM Unknown Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 49 KB
18 Status 0x07fb2a9a145a1459915dc27f28b07cd8 8/13/2008 3:10:00 PM Unknown Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 41 KB
19 Status 0x63e3f168ab2809ba90af04f66dbaaaf3 6/21/2008 4:00:00 PM Unknown Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 52 KB
20 Status 0x6c9d84a5cda1f5107ea539f9180e0570 4/18/2008 12:38:00 AM Unknown Unknown Fast Lamp Warm-up 41 KB


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