The file powermgr.exe belongs to Lexmark Printers Software. It is a Power Manager that automatically switches the printer on and off with the PC. Power management is a common feature for computer peripherals like monitors and printers that either turns off the power or switches the system to a low power state when inactive. The principle is built around the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) standard that provides an open standard for device configuration and power management. This is done in order to check, consolidate, and improve existing power and configuration standards for hardware devices. The motivation for power management includes the reduction of overall power consumption, prolonging the battery life of portable and embedded systems, reducing cooling requirements, reducing noise, and reducing operating costs for energy and cooling. When the computer hibernates, the contents of the RAM are saved to disk and powers down the machine. This allows the machine to be completely powered-off while in the hibernate mode.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Power Manager, 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 powermgr.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 powermgr.exe, belongs to, in this case Power Manager