The process for the file netsession_win.exe is a component of Akamai Netsession Client, software that is licensed under Akamai Technologies. Based on users’ comments, the file seems to have been automatically installed by software that they downloaded from the Internet. As to the specifics of the software, this remains a bit unclear, because users themselves do not know which application or software that they installed, actually installed the netsession_win.exe file. From what other users have gathered, the file appears to speed-up downloading time, and also provides additional security for the PC when downloading applications directly from the Internet. The process runs on a 64-bit platform, and has a general disk image path of C:\Users\User\AppData\Akamai\netsession_win.exe. The file is actually launched by Windows through its generic executable host, svchost.exe. Nine GDI Objects are related to the file. Common size is 4.24 MB. Approximate RAM utilization is 17.03 MB. It has an average CPU utilization of 0.00001458%.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Akamai Netsession Client, 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 netsession_win.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 netsession_win.exe, belongs to, in this case Akamai Netsession Client