The file pokerstars.exe is the executable process for the software PokerStars, which is poker game played online. PokerStars is a poker site that offers online tournament poker, and a wide selection of poker games. Players have the option to enter games that use play money or to play for real. The site hosts weekly poker tournaments like the annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), and events like the European Poker Tour (EPT), PokerStars Carribean Adventure (PCA), and many more. This site holds the record for the biggest online poker tournament and the highest number of people playing at once. PokerStars software is free download for Windows and Mac operating systems. It offers a wide range of poker games like Texas Hold'em, Horse, Stud, Omaha, and many more. This site is not an online casino since the players do not play against the house but against each other, for play money or for real.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as PokerStars, 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 pokerstars.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 pokerstars.exe, belongs to, in this case PokerStars