The file shwicon.exe belongs to the process known as shwicon, which belongs to software shwicon from MyComp. This process is a component of the driver software for Just Rams USB Storage products produced by Just Rams PLC (currently called Integral Memory PLC). Integral manufactures different types of storage devices that include USB Flash drives, memory cards, encrypted USB drives, DRAM, SSD, and mobile memory. The process shwicon.exe is necessary if a storage or memory device from Integral is being used or attached to the computer, to enable the system to recognize and communicate with the device. The USB mass storage device class (UMS) is a protocol that allows a universal serial bus (USB) device to become accessible to a host-computing device and subsequently, allow the transfer of files between the two. Most current mainstream operating systems include support for USB mass storage devices, although support on older systems is usually available through patches.

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

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