Bing Bureau
What is Bing Bureau?
Bing Bureau is software application developed by Microsoft Corporation. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 47.20% of installations running this operating system. Bing Bureau's installer is typically 5.00 MB in size and installs around 23 files. The most common release is 1.3.347.0 with 26.49% of all installations currently using this version.
Bing Bureau is most popular in France with 71.81% of installations residing in this country.
Bing Bureau adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Bing Bureau is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.
About Bing Bureau?
The Bing Bar is a browser extension toolbar developed by Microsoft, designed to enhance the browsing experience on Internet Explorer. While initially supported on Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft has since discontinued support for this browser. The Bing Bar integrates features from Windows Live and the Bing search engine, offering a user-friendly interface with visual effects such as flip, slide, and rollover animations, as well as customizable colors and themes. Additionally, it provides convenient "flyout" content windows, allowing users to access the latest content from the MSN Portal without leaving the current browsing page.
Software Behaviors
- Services:
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- BingDesktopUpdater.exe runs as a service named 'BingDesktopUpdate' (BingDesktopUpdate) "Bing Desktop Update Service".
- Firewall:
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- BingDesktop.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\BingDesktop\BingDesktop.exe'.
- Scheduled tasks:
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- BingDesktop.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{D5DF9549-15FA-424E-A7D1-CB9F0EC429F0}' (runs on registration).
Startup Entries
- Startup tasks:
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- BingDesktop.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 7.
- Registry entries:
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- BingDesktop.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'BingDesktop' and executes as C:\Program Files\Microsoft\BingDesktop\BingDesktop.exe.
- Registry entries (User):
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- BingDesktop.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Application Restart #0' which loads as C:\Program Files\Microsoft\BingDesktop\BingDesktop.exe /RestartByRestartManageC:A2D0915D-BE28-4e24-A3C5-B2784EB0F8C6 /RestartByRestartManageC:2337ED9D-2F80-4b18-9B39-EBF87CFBD1C6 /RestartByRestartMana.
Software Details
- URL:
- https://www.bing.com
- Support:
- –
- Installation path:
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft\BingDesktop\
- Uninstaller:
- MsiExec.exe /I{7D095455-D971-4D4C-9EFD-9AF6A6584F3A}
- Size:
- 5.00 MB
- Language:
- French
Bing Bureau Executable Details
- Primary executable:
- BingDesktop.exe
- Name:
- Bing Bureau
- Path:
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft\BingDesktop\BingDesktop.exe
- MD5:
- 6f85f3875c387beea08a3a7d60b06036
- SHA-1:
- –
- SHA-256:
- –