The file IDW tools has an internal name which is called the sleep.exe file. The file belongs to the software called Hewlett-Packard sleep Application which is owned and developed by the Hewlett-Packard Company. This is a program which is usually dealing with the driver of the special buttons in the keyboard of Hewlett-Packard Personal Computers (PC). The file can be usually found in the C:\Windows\System32 and the file has the usual size of 28,432 bytes in the Hard Disk Drive (HDD). But the file size may vary when used in different version of Operating System such as the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The file sleep.exe contains no visible window in which the user may have the option to change the way it behaves in the Personal Computer. This file does not belong to the Windows Core files. The user may have the option to remove the file by removing the entire program in which the file is associated with.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Hewlett-Packard, 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 sleep.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 sleep.exe, belongs to, in this case Hewlett-Packard