The Creative Register Reminder, or also known as the updreg.exe process, was originally created in order to remind the user to register audio-related programs coming from the Creative Labs software applications and other products for the yet-to-register users on the company’s consumer database. The user has the option to enable or disable this process. The updreg.exe file guides the registration process in order to provide the users with life-long updates and upgrades for their specific Creative Labs product. The updreg.exe file can be found through the LiveWare software that comes with the Audigy cards or SoundBlaster Live. Installing the LiveWare software can be done through the Microsoft Windows System Registry, which allows for proper setting configuration of the saved profile preferences of the user. This EXE file is available as a startup item upon installation in order to guarantee that whenever recent profiles have been created in the computer, the current user profile setting will be automatically saved in the registry and is duplicated to the new user profile.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Creative Labs, 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 updreg.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 updreg.exe, belongs to, in this case Creative Labs