What is Service Host Agent Activation Runtime? How do I disable it?

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The Task Manager in Windows shows overall resource usage by all the processes and applications running on your figurer. That way, you can too bank check if there are any background processes utilizing more memory resources than intended. Service Host Agent Activation Runtime is one such entry in Task Managing director that takes up a Bunch of resources and increases retentivity usage. And then, what exactly this process is, and how to disable it? We'll attempt to reply these 2 questions in this postal service.

What is Service Host Amanuensis Activation Runtime process?

The legit Service Host Amanuensis Activation Runtime process is located in the System32 folder. The files involved are:

agentactivationruntimestarter.exe
agentactivationruntime.dll
agentactivationruntimewindows.dll

The Clarification says Unknown application or Application extension or Runtime for activating conversational agent applications. It is an audio driver-related process that gets activated when yous utilize Cortana.

The path to the Agent Activation Runtime (AarSvc) Service is:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k AarSvcGroup -p

You may see a random number appended to this Service.

How exercise I disable Service Host Amanuensis Activation Runtime?

Since Windows 11 no more than uses Cortana it makes little sense to go on this chore enabled, especially when information technology'south such a memory hog. Let's come across how to disable it!

Open the Chore Director.
Switch to the Startup tab.
Right-click Cortana, cull Disable.
Launch Service Editor.
Locate Agent Activation Runtime.
Correct-click the entry, select Properties.
Modify the Startup type change to Disabled.

Permit us cover the above steps in a bit more detail beneath!

Open the Task Director and switch to the Startup tab.

Nether it, locate Cortana.

When found, right-click the entry and select the Disabled option.

Next, you will need to change the offset beliefs of the service. So, launch the Services Manager.

When the Service editor window opens, locate the Agent Activation Runtime under the Name heading.

Next, right-click the entry and select the Properties pick.

Hitting the drib-down button adjacent to Startup type and modify the Startup blazon to Disabled.

Alternatively, y'all can employ the Registry hack. For this, open the Registry Editor. Navigate to the post-obit path address –

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services

And so, in the listing, await for "AarSvc" and "AarSvcXYZ" entries.

Choose AarSvc and motion to the right-pane.

There, double click Start and change the value data from 3 to 4.

3 = Manual
four = Disabled.

The base should remain at hexadecimal.

Repeat the same for AarSvc.

Once done, restart the computer.

This should set your problem.

What is AarSvc?

AarSvc stands for Agent Activation Runtime Service. Its located nether C:\Windows\System32\AarSvc.dll. The file is a legitimate one and does non pose threat as a virus or malware.

What is UserDataSvc service?

It is the User Data Access (UserDataSvc) Service that allows apps to access user data, including contact info, calendars, messages, and other content. Virtually of the apps running on your organization require this service.

Hope it helps!

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