The process regscan.exe is also known as Microsoft Registry Scanner that has been developed by Microsoft under the Microsoft Operating System software. This is mostly located in the “C:\Windows\System32” folder with file size 325,123 bytes (10% only) and can range from 342,016 bytes and 289,280 bytes, 320,000 bytes and 315,904 bytes, and so on. This is not a Windows system file and is undetected on the Windows folder. It does not have a visible display window when running. The Microsoft Registry Scanner software is important in scanning for information about how the registry is doing. The main task of the software is to scan for unnecessary data or information on the registry and sends a message to the user about what it collected. Then it also goes on to delete those items that have been left over by stopped or disabled programs that may impede the normal functioning of other computer processes.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Microsoft Operating System, 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 regscan.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 regscan.exe, belongs to, in this case Microsoft Operating System