The hcontrol.exe process is also known as the ASUS ATK Hotkey and it was created by the ASUSTek Computer Inc. The ASUSTeK Computer Inc. is a widely known Taiwanese computer electronics and hardware company. It sells products such as desktops, laptops, motherboards, tablet PCs, monitors, video cards, servers and mobile phones. The program makes use of special keys, hotkeys and functions on most of the Asus laptops. This program is a running program and can be executed with the SYSTEM account in the Windows and contains sizable privileges on the user’s local computer. The file is executed by the process asldrsrv.ece which is also known as the ADSMSrv by the ASUSTeK computer. It is recommended that this process remain within the user’s computer system and should not be erased as it may cause unnecessary dysfunctions when tinkered with. This process possesses no visible threats and is considered safe by the user. It is a convenient tool that facilitates the functionality of the user’s computer system.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as ASUS ATK Hotkey, 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 hcontrol.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 hcontrol.exe, belongs to, in this case ASUS ATK Hotkey