The folderprotectservice.exe file is the process called Spotmau WinCare belonging to Spotmau Wincare 2008. It monitors applications. Spotmau Wincare is a utility for PC optimization and maintenance. It also recovers and rescues your system and data from corruption or damage. It checks the health of your PC and fixes the weak items. It recovers your corrupted Windows including lost or missing files, partition table recovery, registry recovery and master boot record. It tunes up your system with Startup Management, registry cleaner, service management, disk cleanup, system, Internet Speedup, Firefox/IE privacy cleaner, shortcut cleaner, Smart Uninstall, IE Repair, IE plug-ins cleaner and more. It recovers Windows from damage after system crash or registry crash. It recovers partition when it crashes or the master boot recode after the disk crashes. It helps to look for lost passwords. It protects your privacy by clearing up activity records. The folderprotectservcie.exe file has no digital signature. The process automatically starts on services installed or on running processes.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. folderprotectservice.exe. is used by Spotmau Wincare, If you shut down folderprotectservice.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop folderprotectservice.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Spotmau Wincare, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed folderprotectservice.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Spotmau Wincare, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if folderprotectservice.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that folderprotectservice.exe, belongs to, in this case Spotmau Wincare