The regedit.exe process is also known as the Registry Editor and it is owned by the Microsoft Corporation. It comes from a hierarchical database of storing configuration options and settings on MS Windows operating systems. It has low-level operating system settings including the applications that are operating on the platform. Its initial primary purpose was to store configuration information that is for COM-based parts. It does not prove to be a requirement for Windows application to use the Windows Registry. It is considered safe by the users to operate within the computer system and seems to be an essential component of the system. It is not recommended for the process to be disabled as it may cause the computer to behave erratically when the process is tampered with. As much as possible, the application must be kept in this place unless it is causing the computer problems. It is an executable file and should be kept running.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Registry Editor, 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 regedit.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 regedit.exe, belongs to, in this case Registry Editor