The Realtek OSD for Volume/Mute is the other name of the file rtvosd.exe which belongs to the software called RtVOsd. This software was owned and developed by the company called Realtek Semiconductor. The program is essential in dealing with the Volume of the sound from the Personal Computer (PC). The file can be located usually in the C: Directory and is found under the sub folder of Program Files. The rtvosd.exe file has the known size of 1,024, 512 bytes in the Hard Disk Drive (HDD). The file size may change when the software is used in different version of Operating System (OS) such as the Windows XP, Windows Vista and the Windows 7. The program does not provide the user with a “User Interface” and it makes it an invisible program. The file does not belong to the Windows system core file and has the ability to input records. The file can be removed by removing the entire program in which the file is included upon installation. And the removal can be done by using Add/Remove process located in the Control Panel of Microsoft Operating System (OS).

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

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