Developed by Microsoft Corporation, bbsvc.exe is the process file for Bing Bar, an extension tool bar for the Internet Explorer browser. Formerly MSN Toolbar, Bing Bar previously supported Mozilla Firefox until Microsoft discontinued support. The Bing Bar incorporates the Windows Live features like Hotmail, the Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live ID, and Windows Live features from the Bing search engine. Its user-interface features visual effects like flip, rollover, and slide animations, themes, and colors. The toolbar “flyout" content windows enable users view to the latest contents from the MSN Portal without switching internet pages. The users can select from MSN content buttons to represent preferred user interface. Bing Bar integrates the Microsoft Bing search engine, allowing search using other Bing services like Images, Video, Shopping, News, Maps, Travel, etc. When the user searches on other search engines, Bing Bar's search box automatically populates itself to allow view of the results coming from Bing, if desired.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Bing Bar, 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 bbsvc.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 bbsvc.exe, belongs to, in this case Bing Bar