The process DrvIcon or drvicon.exe is an executable program supporting Vista Drive Icon from artArmin. With this software, Vista Drive Icons are adapted on other operating systems other than Vista. Drive icons are the icons that displays a bar showing the memory status of each drive. Bar icons are red if the drive is full or nearly full and are green or blue if the memory space available is still more than half. The background process drvicon.exe is the one responsible for checking the memory status of each drive installed in the computer. This file commonly runs at computer start up, and shows no visible window. It is located inside the subfolders of the Program Files folder of the local drive, and is occupying 45 KB to 110 KB of disc space. This process is a part of Windows operating system, but is not a core component and may be removed if needed.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Vista Drive Icon, 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 drvicon.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 drvicon.exe, belongs to, in this case Vista Drive Icon