The process related to the file oa012mon.exe is known as Creative Monitoring application. The file may have been installed via the software for your Creative optical media device such as a Web camera. While the process name does say that it is a monitoring application, possibly for your Web camera, it is not generally known what the process actually does, or the exact functions it monitors, whether it monitors only the device or it monitors associated computer functions as well. Therefore, users usually opt to allow the file to run to avoid device errors. Clients have not reported any serious system problems related to the oa012mon.exe file, so the general rule is to leave it alone. The file can be found installed in the following path: C:\Windows\System 32\oa012mon.exe. The file is verified as legitimate by the software developer, a company known as Creative Technology Ltd. It has a known file size of 24,576 bytes.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. oa012mon.exe. is used by Creative Monitoring application, If you shut down oa012mon.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop oa012mon.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Creative Monitoring application, 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 oa012mon.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Creative Monitoring application, 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 oa012mon.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 oa012mon.exe, belongs to, in this case Creative Monitoring application