The file speedfan.exe belongs to the software SpeedFan from Almico Software. This utility takes a deeper view of the status of the computer, specifically support for hardware monitoring. It contains tools that search the components of the system like the motherboard, informative chips, and even video cards to look for possible sources of errors and problems during computing. PC technicians and users who prefer to do maintenance work on their PC can find useful information from this utility. It has a tray icon that provides information like the temperature of the motherboard and hard disk, voltages and fan speeds, and provides information on the status of the hard disk using SMART (Self-Monitoring Access and Reporting Technology) and SCSI attributes. The software is fully configurable, and the user can create custom events to handle every situation automatically. This application is a tool that can help users understand and find the cause of problems like unpredictable reboot and hard disk failure.

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

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