w3wp.exe Windows process description

Windows 7, Windows XP or Windows Vista software, task, program or application with exename w3wp.exe

Specific issues and troubleshooting:

• Is w3wp.exe virus or not? And how you can recognize it.
• Solve problems with w3wp.exe error.
• A little bit more specific w3wp.exe application error.
• Removal guide: How to remove w3wp.exe.
• Solve problems with w3wp.exe not responding.
• Windows performance problems: w3wp.exe high cpu.
• File damaged: w3wp.exe corrupted.

What is w3wp.exe - purpose and description:

The executable w3wp.exe is IIS Application Pool Process on Microsoft Windows operating systems, and is associated with the functionality and stability of the application pools. Application pools are groupings of different web applications and URLs.

Ports opened by this process:

This process opens 0 ports. See details of ports opened by w3wp.exe

Security risk rating: N/A
Trojan and malware info: N/A*
Typical errors: File not found, An error occurred in file, Not responding, Application Error 0x, Howto delete, stop, run, remove and find the file.
Note: N/A means "Not available". That means that now we have no information if this process is harmful or not.

Operating system distribution

w3wp.exe was seen on this operating systems:

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Latest user reviews

Summary: 1 user(s) rated this process.
Average security risk: Low

Disclaimer: this user reviews are provided "as is" without any warranty. Reviews are uncensored opinions submitted by our users. We are not responsible for the content of these User Reviews.

User (IP)	Security risk
98.66.185.*	Low
Slow but harmless

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w3wp.exe version list:

The name w3wp.exe can be used by many programs from different vendors. Also, the same vendor can create w3wp.exe in more than one version. Thus, we distinguish between all such variants by so called "checksum". Checksum is unique number identifying particular version of w3wp.exe:

Checksum (MD5)	Version	Size (bytes)	Manufacturer
41230117	6.0.3790.1830	7168	- Unknown -
bbedf876	7.5.7600.16385		Microsoft Corporation
25a3a7f4	7.5.7600.16385		Microsoft Corporation
923d9b538faef9fb3488b13b8747a535	7.5.7601.17514	24576	Microsoft Corporation
c1989269fb3d37f17d32f5665b31ca60	7.5.7601.17514	19968	Microsoft Corporation

Help us: where is w3wp.exe located on your harddisk?

"C:\Windows\system32\"
"C:\Windows\"
"C:\"
"C:\Program files\%subfolder%\"
Other

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