The executable process file dlservice.exe (version 6, 4, 1, 23535) belongs to Device Lock Service that is part of the software Device Lock Service or Device Lock that is developed by the company Smartline Inc. or Device Lock. The process file is a system prevention control agent that is found to be running in the Task Manager as the process dlservice.exe and is found to be located in the folder of Program Files\devicelock or in C:\Windows\System 32. The certificate of the process file has been signed by Smartline Incorporated and has been issued by Verisign Time Stamping Services Signer-G2. The process file has a feature of hiding itself, thus is considered not to have a visible window, is not a Windows core file and neither is it a Windows system file. On Windows 7 or XP, the process file has a file size of 165,376 bytes (17% of all incidences), or 974,848 bytes and 12 other variants. In functionality, the process file dlservice.exe is able to observe applications and manipulate other programs.

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

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