Originating from Sweden, Spotify is a music streaming service that offers digitally restricted playing of music collection from a wide range of independent and major record labels. Its registered users have the privilege to integrate their Spotify account with their existing Facebook and/or Twitter accounts. When a Spotify profile is integrated with favorite social media profiles, the user can access friends’ playlists and favorite music and vice versa. Spotify.exe is the executable file that launches the Spotify service. When a user is logged in, Spotify runs in a 64-bit program executes while the user avails the account privileges. Spotify is currently used in Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Telia Digital-tv, Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile, S60 (Symbian), Squeezebox, webOS, Sonos, Boxee, MeeGo and WD TV. Technical research and developmental studies are presently being conducted for the program since the recent reports about malwares that contain the name Spotify.

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

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