What is Jqs.exe and How to disable it?
For all you people wondering what this process Jqs.exe is and what it is doing in our system, here are the required details.
What is Jqs.exe?
When you open the Task Manager you may note that a process named Jqs.exe is running in the background. It consumes a small part of the memory but surely a useful one. It consumes around 1.5 Megabytes of computer memory and 2 Megabytes of virtual memory.
Jqs is short for Java Quick Starter and belongs to Java. The process is required to improve the startup time of Java applets and applications by pre-fetching Java Runtime Environment files frequently into memory.
Steps to disable it
Surely the process is useless for someone who does not deal that frequently with Java applets and thus should disable it.
• To disable just visit the Control Panel and open the Java entry.
• Now go to Advanced tab and look for the Miscellaneous entry below.
• Make sure to uncheck the activated Java Quick Starter entry.
That’s it the process has been disabled and removed.
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November 24th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Unfortunately, with the recent versions of Java, this no longer works. There is no way to permanently disable jqs.exe that does not get undone when java is updated. Thanks Sun!
December 15th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
I agree with Pete. Following the instructions to de-select jqs on the Java Control Panel doesn’t stop jqs.exe from restarting with a reboot. I have to kill the process in Task Manager every reboot.
And yes, this is a horrible resource drain on my old, low-ram system.
Really bad move, Sun.
December 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Kill the service! Just open services.msc scroll to java quick starter , select disable. Viola!
December 27th, 2009 at 1:31 am
How do you open services.msc to disable jsq.exe?
December 30th, 2009 at 1:59 am
Search for the file services.msc - on my system it’s in
C:\i386
Double-click the file to open it. You get a window called “Services(local)”.
Now scroll down to Java Quick Starter.
Right click it, select Properties.
Under Startup Type, change it from “automatic” to “disabled”.
December 31st, 2009 at 8:10 am
Right click on ‘my computer’
select manage
select services
right quick on ‘Java Quick Start’
select Properties
change ‘Startup Type’ to ‘disabled’
select apply or ok
then right click on it again and click on ’stop’
I hope this helps
February 25th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Even easier start menu (XP SP2)/run/type services.msc