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What is wsqmcons.exe? Customer Experience Improvement Program?

Vendor:      Microsoft Corporation
Product:     Microsoft
Vendor Website:      http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939039
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

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Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

Purpose: wsqmcons.exe - This scheduled task (Consolidator) runs the Wsqmcons.exe program when you install Windows Vista. This scheduled task also runs the Wsqmcons.exe program daily if the user consented to participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program. This program collects and sends usage data to Microsoft.

wsqmcons.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.


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wsqmcons.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: 0.04%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 2 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
wsqmcons.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xf888457a33c6d156805066f39bd42447 10/13/2017 3:15:00 AM Unknown 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) Customer Experience Improvement Program 179 KB
2 Status 0xe8b0a9ecb76aaa0c3519e16f34a49858 8/7/2017 8:16:00 PM Unknown 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) Customer Experience Improvement Program 187 KB
3 Status 0x5c7ce3b32eddd97b97d334c7019d00b8 10/30/2009 9:19:00 AM Unknown Unknown Customer Experience Improvement Program 249 KB
4 Status 0xeb1de9ed243f5e9b466fd7db150cce7b 4/26/2009 2:50:00 AM Unknown Unknown Customer Experience Improvement Program 187 KB
5 Status 0x94254e167015ac5b2faa4e6a50205481 2/19/2009 5:59:00 PM Unknown Unknown Customer Experience Improvement Program 204 KB
6 Status 0x28f90a96a415881c6306262183d7a683 1/11/2009 12:43:00 AM Unknown Unknown Customer Experience Improvement Program 188 KB


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