Experienced computer users might guess that the process is related to
Java and that is the case indeed. Jqs.exe is the Java Quick Starter
which was designed to improve the startup time of Java applets and
applications by prefetching Java Runtime Environment (JRE) files frequently into memory. That’s mainly interesting for users who work
with Java on a day to day basis. Everyone else might be better of
disabling the Java Quick Starter. Think of a user who encounters one
Java applet per month (or week), would it make sense to run the process
all the time because of those few instances where it might start the
application or applet faster? (see also Java Portable on how to use a portable version of Java on the computer)
Jqs.exe
is definitely querying the Windows Registry for instance. The
performance increase might not be huge but you will free up some
computer memory and some I/O processes on the computer system.
How to disable JQS.exe
Now,
if you want to disable the Java Quick Starter process you can do that
in the Windows Control Panel. You find a Java entry there which will
open the Java Control Panel.
A click on Advanced and the selection
of Miscellaneous will display the activated Java Quick Starter entry.
Uncheck the box to disable the process. This will be visible in the
Windows Task Manager immediately.
You might also be interested in finding out how to run Java Portable which is another option to make sure that no background processes are running.
Interested in finding out what other processes on your system are doing? Check out our Process listing for that.
Update:
Several commenters mentioned that using the Java Control Applet to
disable jqs.exe will only disable the program from running for the
logged in user. Another method to disable the Java background process is
more appropriate for multi-user systems:
You need to press
Windows-R, type in services.msc and hit enter. This opens the Windows
Services configuration window. Locate the Java Quick Starter service
from the listing and right-click it.
Select Properties from the menu, this opens a new window with details about the process.
Click
on the Stop button to stop the Java Quick Starter button and thus
jqs.exe from running in the current session. You also need to change the
startup type from automatic to disabled to prevent that it is loaded on
the next start of the Windows operating system. Once done click Apply
and then Ok to close the window.
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