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Windows 10 is an operating system that, despite having been on the market for a while, always leaves us something new. There are many things that users who make use of it do not know. It is likely that on some occasion you have noticed that there is a procedure running on the computer called LockApp.exe. Most likely, you do not know very well what it is or what it is for. That is why, below we are going to talk more about it.
So you have more information about what this LockApp.exe procedure means y el efecto que tiene en el funcionamiento de Windows 10. Ya que es un procedimiento que no muchos saben, pero es importante tenerlo en cuenta. Es por ello que esperamos que te be de ayuda.
What is LockApp.exe in Windows 10?
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We must start by mentioning that LockApp.exe is something that is part of Windows 10. It is a procedure that has a specific function in the operating system. For this case, They are responsible for showing us the login and lock screen.. What this procedure does is show this screen that comes out just before logging into the computer, in which we see a background image, along with the current date and time.
Al mismo tiempo, dependiendo de lo que haya escogido el Username, podemos hallar más ítems. Hay usuarios que muestran information about the time or notifications that new emails show us that we have received in our inbox. There are quite a few opportunities in this regard.
Therefore, this procedure you spend most of your time doing nothing in Windows 10. Since we only make use of it when we are on the aforementioned lock screen. So when we log in or lock it, this procedure runs on the computer. But it is important that this procedure loads correctly, so that we can have access to the PC at all times.
At the same time, this LockApp.exe is a procedure that does not consume too many system resources. It is active when the Windows 10 lock screen is active. But the moment we log in, the lock app will be suspended and the computer will start. According to various experts and previous studies, this procedure consumes between 10 and 12 MB of memory on this login screen. Thus, the CPU usage is truly low at all times. Once we register, consumption is considerably reduced, and is practically nil. It is usually about 48 to 50 Kbytes.
How relevant is LockApp.exe in Windows 10?
Even though it may not seem like it, this procedure is quite important on our Windows 10 computer. On the one hand, we already know that its resource consumption is really low. So if we ever see that the consumption you are doing is higher than normal, we can feel that something is wrong with the computer. Which will cause us to investigate the origin of this viable problem.
And what is more, it is also important for safety reasons. Users who wish to do so have the opportunity to disable LockApp.exe from their Windows 10 computer. This means that upon startup, we will see the login prompt without a previous lock screen. This is something that attackers have used in the past to obtain user data. That is why it is a serious obstacle, which we must prevent at all times. Keep it enabled in Windows 10.
Then, the recommendation is to let LockApp.exe run regularly on the operating system. It is a procedure that consumes few system resources, and that allows us to see if there are operational problems in it. At the same time, it is a good security measure, for which we do not have to pay anything.
