The smootview.exe process is known as SmoothView and is owned by the Toshiba Corporation. It is from the zooming utility of Toshiba. It offers zoom functionality in a common application including the Microsoft Office. The process is a non-essential process, thus it can be enabled or disabled by the user depending on his or her preference. The process is not a Windows core file and its program is not visible in the background. This process starts at Windows startup. The technical security rating of this file is 33% dangerous, making it relatively safe, though some precautions must be measured in order to ensure the protection of the computer system from malicious threats on the internet. It can be considered to be relatively safe by the users and has minimal risk of hazards. Whenever a problem is encountered by the user, he or she can simply scan for the file or uninstall and reinstall it to restore the PC system back into working condition.

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

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