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consent.exe

Associated Program: Microsoft Windows

Programm Category: Operating System Software

What is consent.exe

The file consent.exe is part of the Windows User Account Control application. The file launches the User Interface for Windows UAC. Disabling the file may render UAC unusable. Windows UAC provides clients with an application that can keep their important files, documents, and applications secure by not allowing public access to these. When another person logs-on into the system, they will not be able to manipulate, change or delete any of the files that you have secured under your UAC account. These may also not be shown to the public. Only the applications and files that you publicly share will be accessed by users who do not have administrative privileges on your PC. In other words, the file serves as a security measure for your files, as well as your PC. On occasion, the file has been found to hog CPU resources. Other than this, the file has never given any major security issues to computers.

How can I stop consent.exe and should I?

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

Is this a virus or other security concern?

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What is a process and how do they affect my computer?

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Microsoft Windows, 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.

Is consent.exe known to be bad for my computer's performance?

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.

What can I do if consent.exe is causing errors on my computer?

The first thing you should do if consent.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 consent.exe, belongs to, in this case Microsoft Windows

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