The keystone.exe file is an executable application resource process that is used by the NVIDIA nView Control Panel software, which is a Windows application bundled with the device driver software components and firmware distributions of certain motherboards and video cards equipped with NVIDIA chipsets. This means the keystone.exe file is used alongside other executable application resources, modular system and program-specific DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files, certain SYS driver utilities, particular background and system process items and various components, in order to implement compatibility support into Windows-based systems for these NVIDIA chipsets, motherboards and video cards. The keystone.exe file is placed in the system upon the installation of the NVIDIA nView Control Panel software and these associated NVIDIA firmware distributions and device driver software packages.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as NVIDIA nView Control Panel, 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 keystone.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 keystone.exe, belongs to, in this case NVIDIA nView Control Panel