Microsoft Office Word, also known as Microsoft Word, is the program that executes with the file winword.exe. This is the main executable file for the program. If you have MS Word open, you will see the file in your Task Manager window. If you disable the file or uninstall it, you will not be able to access MS Word. The file comes in different versions, depending on the version of MS Office that you have running on your PC. The later versions of the software are usually what clients are using today; from MS Office 2000 and up. Microsoft Office 2010 has the winword.exe file version of 14.0.4734.1000. This file has a size of 1.36 MB. It has a standard disk location of C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 14\winword.exe. MS Office is software from Microsoft that installs Office applications on the computer: MS Word, Excel, Publisher, Access, Groove, PowerPoint, InfoPath, OneNote and Outlook. Shell open command identifier name for the file is “wordhtmlfile.”

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

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