Service Locator or NI Service Locator is the service name of the process called nisvcloc.exe, which is a type of an executable or EXE file, and is essentially a part of the application National Instruments Service Locator, otherwise known as NISVCLOC or National Instruments Corp. LabView, which is developed by National Instruments Corp. During the installation process of the software product, nisvcloc.exe is added, registered into the Windows registry, stored on a folder location, usually in C:\Program Files, or C:\Documents and Settings, and automatically run in the background as a service of the program that houses it. Other than that, this particular file process is compatible with most or all versions of Microsoft Windows Operating Systems, or Windows OS, which include Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows ME, but whichever OS is used, this module has to remain active and continue to run in the background, since it is digitally signed from National Instruments Corporation - VeriSign Time Stamping Services Signer.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as National Instruments Service Locator, 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 nisvcloc.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 nisvcloc.exe, belongs to, in this case National Instruments Service Locator