What is Bing-Desktop?

Bing-Desktop is software application developed by Microsoft Corporation. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 56.56% of installations running this operating system. Bing-Desktop's installer is typically 5.00 MB in size and installs around 25 files. The most common release is 1.4.167.0 with 34.77% of all installations currently using this version.

Bing-Desktop is most popular in Germany with 92.89% of installations residing in this country.

Bing-Desktop 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-Desktop is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Bing-Desktop?

Bing Desktop is a software application created by Microsoft that enables users to easily access Bing search directly from their desktop. Users can also customize their desktop background with the Bing homepage image or select from the previous nine background images. The program also offers features such as viewing news headlines and initiating web searches directly from the desktop interface.

Software Behaviors

Services:

BingDesktopUpdater.exe runs as a service named 'BingDesktopUpdate' (BingDesktopUpdate) "Bing Desktop Update Service".

Firewall:

BingDesktop.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\BingDesktop\BingDesktop.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

BingDesktop.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{D5DF9549-15FA-424E-A7D1-CB9F0EC429F0}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

BingDesktop.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named BingDesktop_Reg_HKLMWow6432Run.

Registry entries:

BingDesktop.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Bing Desktop Application' and executes as C:\Program Files\Microsoft\BingDesktop\BingDesktop.exe.

Registry entries (User):

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:C0293827-5015-4d54-9F05-A0474EA5A73A /RestartByRestartManageC:A156692B-A3BF-41ed-968E-71A5B3DC37D9 /RestartByRestartMana.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.bing.com/explore/desktop

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft\BingDesktop\

Uninstaller:

MsiExec.exe /I{7D095455-D971-4D4C-9EFD-9AF6A6584F3A}

Size:

5.00 MB

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