The ck.exe process is a free software (or freeware) known as CleverKeys that belongs to Lexico Publishing Group. This software enables users to search for information online, such as fact/s, word definitions or descriptions, synonyms (and antonyms), questions, abbreviations and acronym definitions, English translations of certain foreign words or phrases and other queries that can be performed in Web search engines, essentially from any Windows program or Mac application, including (but not limited to) most email programs, word processors, Web browsers, Outlook Express, Notepad, WordPad, Microsoft Word and more. These searches can be done with the use of configurable hot key combinations (Windows), a contextual menu entry (Mac) or customizable keyboard shortcuts. This software provides a tabbed UI (User Interface), and users can add their own URLs to find associated word definitions and documentation resources. Classified as an Internet Explorer add-on, this application and the ck.exe process have also been found to be compatible with other Web browsers.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as CleverKeys, 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 ck.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 ck.exe, belongs to, in this case CleverKeys