The hadsm3_5.06_windows_intelx86.exe file is a process used by the application BOINC. It is not a system process. BOINC is an open source software that supports grid computing and volunteer computing. It enables you to access two types of resources to perform computations including personal computers of volunteers coming from the general public who join volunteer computing and the desktop computers of organizations doing grid computing. You can choose a BOINC project to join. These projects involve scientific research such as finding cure for diseases and studying global warming. Volunteer computing involves volunteers who provide resources for projects that involve storage and distributed computing. Volunteers have personal computers connected to the Internet. Grid computing is distributed computing involving organizations that use their existing computers to perform long-running computations. These computations may not be controlled and can be completely invisible to the user.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. hadsm3_5.06_windows_intelx86.exe. is used by BOINC, If you shut down hadsm3_5.06_windows_intelx86.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop hadsm3_5.06_windows_intelx86.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is BOINC, 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 hadsm3_5.06_windows_intelx86.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as BOINC, 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 hadsm3_5.06_windows_intelx86.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 hadsm3_5.06_windows_intelx86.exe, belongs to, in this case BOINC