winsat.exe??? wtf is this?

Reaper 392 · 17 Apr 2011 at 00:05

anyone know what this is?
it just turned itself on at exactly midnight for like 1 min, took up all my processing power, made chrome look ****e, then went away and everything went back to normal.

i am now doing a virus scan just in case

DragonQ · 17 Apr 2011 at 00:06

Windows Experience Index. It runs periodically.

Emphacy · 17 Apr 2011 at 00:06

It's part of the Windows Assessment tool used in Windows Vista and 7.
WinSAT (SAT = System Assessment Tool)

stulid · 17 Apr 2011 at 00:07

windows system assessment tool

looks like everyone was fast with the google skilzzzz tonight, so more than others lol

Emphacy · 17 Apr 2011 at 00:09

stulid said:
windows system assessment tool

looks like everyone was fast with the google skilzzzz tonight, so more than others lol

Hehe I know because I disabled indexing and what not a few months ago, my laptop did the same thing.

Reaper 392 · 17 Apr 2011 at 00:47

oh cool, nothing to worry about then. thanks for that

wish i'd bothered googling it. the last two unrecognised .exe's i had didnt even turn up on a google search, so i came here for this one