What is usoclient.exe in Windows 10

If you get a usoclient.exe popup every time you start Windows 10, then this post will answer a few of your questions. Is Uso Client a virus or system process? Here is What is usoclient.exe in Windows 10.

Usoclient.exe popup

If you too are noticing this on your laptop, here are a few things you may want to know.

The usoclient.exe file is located in the System32 folder. If you open this folder location and right-click on it and select Properties, you will see that it a Microsoft Windows Operating System process 0f size 19.5 KB.

VirusTotal & Jotti scans find this file C:\Windows\System32\usoclient.exe to be completely clean.

It you find a file with this name in any other folder, it could well be a virus and you may want to run your anti-virus software scan.

If you open Task Scheduler and check the scheduled tasks at Microsoft > Windows > UpdateOrchestrator, you will find mention of this process.

The Triggers for this task to run could be One Time, At system startup, Custom Trigger or On an event – and it performs a scheduled Windows Update scan.

uso client popup windows 10

In any case, seeing a CMD windows popup on every boot is not good user experience, and I really have no idea why it should be happening on one of my Windows 10 laptops and not the other 3-4 computers.

Those of you who may still be concerned, may want to check you firewall and router logs for the connection requests it makes.

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