The hwiont.sys is a Windows system driver associated with the program HWIONT which is a Windows NT hardware driver manufactured by The Freeware Company. Not much information is available about the product aside from the detail that it runs in Windows-based systems. It is most likely that the program has been dropped from circulation as the version of Windows it serves is already obsolete. Generally, the process works in Windows-based system and is known to be required as the program tries to bridge the necessary hardware component to render its features effective, signifying that such processes have direct access to the internal system of the operating system as well as the hardware. System files contains system settings, variables and functions to run a program indicating the importance of the hwiont.sys in the course of running HWIONT on the system.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as HWIONT, 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 hwiont.sys. 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 hwiont.sys, belongs to, in this case HWIONT