The dynamic link library or DLL file called ashshell.dll is known by the service name avast! Shell Extension, which is a component of the software product avast! Antivirus or avast! Free Antivirus, also avast! Internet Security, and is developed by ALWIL Software or AVAST Software. avast! Antivirus, also avast! Free Antivirus or avast! Internet Security is basically a security application that is designed to protect the computer against viruses, worms, spyware, and other threats that affect the data stored in the computer, other applications installed, and the system. The ashshell.dll file is digitally signed from ALWIL Software - VeriSign Time Stamping Services Signer, which makes it more essential to remain running in the background of the computer system, and it is compatible with most versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems,like Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows ME.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as avast! Antivirus or avast! Free Antivirus or avast! Internet Security, 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 ashshell.dll. 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 ashshell.dll, belongs to, in this case avast! Antivirus or avast! Free Antivirus or avast! Internet Security