The User Profile Hive Cleanup Service, or the uphclean.exe file is a quick tool that enables the user in clearing some Windows Profile problems. The User Profile Hive Cleanup Service has no interface. If the user wants to change its functions, he or she can do so by using the Windows Registry values. When the computer of the user is suffering from a slow shutdowns because of the selected profile problems, this process is an essential tool to help the user ease the problem by fixing the specific problem. The uphclean.exe is an easy to use process for the intermediate users. This process works with Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems and may consume 100 bytes of your hard disk memory. The file uphclean.exe can be found in the sub folder of C:\program files. The user may have the option of removing the process by using the add/remove programs located in the control panel of the Windows operating system.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as User Profile Hive Cleanup Service, 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 uphclean.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 uphclean.exe, belongs to, in this case User Profile Hive Cleanup Service