ViaIde.sys is also known as Generic PCI IDE Bus Driver. It belongs to ViaIde or the Microsoft Windows NT Operating System software. IDE or Integrated Development Environment is an application in itself that helps computer programmers to develop software by providing the necessary facilities. ViaIde.sys provides the facilities needed by a Generic PCI IDE Bus Driver in order to provide the functionalities that would support software developers. The SYS file is involved in configuration activities. The ViaIde.sys file works on setting up the IDE drivers to be able to integrate well with the other software and hardware components of the system. It matches the resources available with the hardware devices associated with the as Generic PCI IDE Bus Driver to prevent conflicts and problems. It functions as a device driver for the computer to allow advanced programs to operate well using the hardware of the computer system. ViaIde.sys makes the hardware respond to its commands.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as ViaIde, 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 viaide.sys. 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 viaide.sys, belongs to, in this case ViaIde