Belkin Home Base Control Center
What is Belkin Home Base Control Center? (from Belkin International)
Belkin Home Base lets you share your USB devices, such as printers and hard drives, with computers on your home network. The Control Center software offers a convenient central location to configure Home Base and the USB devices you attach to it.
Overview
Belkin Home Base Control Center is a program developed by Belkin International. It adds a background controller service that is set to automatically run. Delaying the start of this service is possible through the service manager. The software is designed to connect to the Internet and adds a Windows Firewall exception in order to do so without being interfered with. When installed, it will add a context menu handler to the Windows shell in order to provide quick access to the program. The main program executable is connect.exe. The software installer includes 14 files and is usually about 10.86 MB (11,392,156 bytes). In comparison to the total number of users, most PCs are running the OS Windows 7 (SP1) as well as Windows 10. While about 35% of users of Belkin Home Base Control Center come from the United States, it is also popular in Germany and United Kingdom.
Program details
URL: www.belkin.com
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\Belkin\Home Base Control Center
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\Belkin\Home Base Control Center\Couninst.exe
Estimated size: 10.86 MB
Files installed by Belkin Home Base Control Center
Program executable: | connect.exe |
Name: | Belkin Home Base Control Center |
Path: | C:\Program Files\belkin\home base control center\connect.exe |
MD5: | ef3df3fb671f4190ce03bff4553e1589 |
Additional files:
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BkHistoryBrowser.dll - Belkin Home Base Control Center (Belkin Home Base Control Center History Browser Extension)
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Hbhelper.exe - Belkin Home Base Control Center Helper
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HbVirtualDrive.dll - Belkin Home Base Control Center Virtual Drive
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HistoryBrowser.exe - Belkin Home Base Control Center History Browser
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BkRestart.exe - Belkin Service Restart Utility
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BcSetup.exe
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BkBackupScheduler.exe
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BkLocalBackup.dll
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Couninst.exe
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Hbapcs.exe
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OSAL.dll
Behaviors exhibited
Context Menu Handler
- BkHistoryBrowser.dll added to Windows Explorer under the name 'Belkin HistoryBrowser' with a class of {5E0A7F0F-4B41-4661-A084-BFF3F8CBDE25}.
2 Services
- Hbapcs.exe runs as a service named 'Belkin Home Base Control Center Service' (Belkin Home Base Control Center Service) "Belkin Home Base Control Center Service".
- BkBackupScheduler.exe runs as a service named 'Belkin Local Backup Service' (Belkin Local Backup Service) "Belkin Local Backup Service".
Windows Firewall Allowed Program
- Connect.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Belkin\Home Base Control Center\Connect.exe'.
How do I remove Belkin Home Base Control Center?
You can uninstall Belkin Home Base Control Center from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
- On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
- Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
- When you find the program Belkin Home Base Control Center, click it, and then do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
- Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
- Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Belkin Home Base Control Center.
OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 64%
Win Vista (SP2) 3%
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HOW IT RUNS
Windows Service? Yes
(Installs a service)
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USER ACTIONS
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Uninstall it 1%
Keep it 99%
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Windows
Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 |
64.47% |
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Windows 10 |
26.32% |
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Windows XP |
6.58% |
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Windows Vista |
2.63% |
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Which OS releases does it run on? |
Windows 7 Home Premium |
40.79% |
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Windows 7 Professional |
11.84% |
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Windows 7 Ultimate |
9.21% |
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Windows 8.1 Pro |
7.89% |
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Microsoft Windows XP |
6.58% |
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Windows 10 Pro |
5.26% |
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Geography
35.37% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
United States |
35.37% |
Germany |
25.61% |
United Kingdom |
10.98% |
Belgium |
6.10% |
Austria |
3.66% |
Spain |
3.66% |
Netherlands |
3.66% |
Switzerland |
1.22% |
France |
1.22% |
Greece |
1.22% |
Ireland |
1.22% |
Italy |
1.22% |
New Zealand |
1.22% |
Portugal |
1.22% |
PC manufacturers
What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Acer |
24.49% |
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Hewlett-Packard |
22.45% |
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ASUS |
12.24% |
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GIGABYTE |
10.20% |
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Dell |
6.12% |
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Medion |
6.12% |
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Apple |
4.08% |
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American Megatrends |
4.08% |
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Lenovo |
2.04% |
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Intel |
2.04% |
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Gateway |
2.04% |
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Compaq |
2.04% |
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Common models |
ASUSTeK N81Vp |
4.55% |
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Apple Inc. MacBookPro8,3 |
3.03% |
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Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H |
3.03% |
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HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... |
3.03% |
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MEDION H77H2-EM |
3.03% |
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HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... |
3.03% |
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About Belkin International
Belkin is a manufacturer of consumer electronics that specializes in connectivity devices and sells in both the consumer and the commercial market, with various product lines including routers, mobile computing accessories, hubs, cables, KVM switches and other peripherals.
Publisher URL: www.belkin.com