The process name of the atpart1.dll file is Addictive Technologies Spyware. It is a process associated with 2nd Thought advertising program developed by Addictive Technologies. This process file can monitor your browsing activities and can distribute data going back to the server of the author for analysis. This process also causes advertising popups. It is considered a security risk. It is a non-system process that originates from the software that you have installed on the system. There is a chance that your registry will suffer fragmentation as invalid entries tend to accumulate and affect the performance of your computer. The process involving atpart1.dll is considered not CPU intensive although too many processes running on your computer system may affect its performance. The location of the atpart1.dll file is %system%\atpart~1.dll. Error messages associated with the file include “error loading atpart atpart~1.dll”, “error run atpart~1.dll”, “cannot find atpart~1.dll”, “the file atpart~1.dll has not been found”.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. atpart1.dll. is used by Addictive Technologies Spyware, If you shut down atpart1.dll, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop atpart1.dll, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Addictive Technologies Spyware, 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 atpart1.dll

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Addictive Technologies Spyware, 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 atpart1.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 atpart1.dll, belongs to, in this case Addictive Technologies Spyware