Application Experience - AeLookupSvc

by Marc Liron - Microsoft MVP

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Below is a description of this Windows Vista service:

Application Experience

# Service Name:

AeLookupSvc

# Service Description:

Processes application compatibility cache requests for applications as they are launched.

# Default Settings:

Default setting in Windows Vista Home Basic is: Automatic
Default setting in Windows Vista Home Premium is: Automatic
Default setting in Windows Vista Business is: Automatic
Default setting in Windows Vista Ultimate is: Automatic

# This Windows service logs on as:

Local System

# The default path for this Windows service is:

%systemroot%\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs

# This Windows service depends on the following system components:

None.

# The following services have a dependency on this service:

None.

Marc Says:

This Windows service is a part of the Application Compatibility Administrator. It processes application compatibility lookup requests for applications as they are launched, reports on compatibility issues, and automatically applies software updates to programs.

The Application Experience Lookup service must be active for application compatibility software updates be applied. This service does not use any network, Internet, or Active Directory service resources.

If you disable this service it will continue to run but no calls will be made to the service. You cannot stop the actual process.