The peer.exe process is also known as the Grid Service which belongs to the Grid Service and is owned by the FS2YOU or Mercury. This process is known to use ports to be able to connect to a LAN or the Internet. The application has the capability to connect to the Internet and monitor applications. The peer.exe process has no visible window and it is loaded during the Windows boot process. It is not a Windows core file. It has known file sizes on Windows 7/XP that are 4,993,024 bytes which is 51% of all occurrences, 3,362,816 bytes or 840,192 bytes. The process is not digitally signed. This process contains a technical security rating of 65% dangerous, which suggests that the user needs to take cautionary measures when encountering this process as it has the potential to harm the user’s computer system. It is up to the user whether he or she will enable or disable the process, though it is advisable not to terminate the program unless it is causing serious problems within the user’s computer system.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Grid Service, 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 peer.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 peer.exe, belongs to, in this case Grid Service