What is jusched.exe and why is it running?

If you’ve ever looked at your Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista task Manager and you’ve said “What in the heck is that jusched.exe process that is always running?” then I am here to answer that question for you!

What it is, is a simple little process that runs all the time, just to check once a week, or once a month to check if there is a Java update available (from Sun Microsystems, who makes the Java VM). The whole rest of the time it is running, it simply wastes memory on your machine.

If you’re like me, then you hate wasting memory on your machine. Espcially on a Windows based machine. So let’s get rid of it!

What you’ll need to do is open up Control Panel, and then if you are in XP you can click on the Java icon, or in Vista you can click on Additional Options, and then click on Java.

Once you have the Java Control Panel open, select the Update tab, and then uncheck the box for “Check for Updates Automatically”

You’ll receive a warning message stating that if somebody finds a security hole in Java that it will take up to a month before you are protected from it:

After you click the Never Check button above, you’ll probably receive this error message if you are in Windows Vista, stating that it also hasn’t been properly certified to work with Vista in the first place. Just click that it works correctly.

That’s it, you’re done. Kiss jusched.exe bye! Now, just remember to go to Java.com every so often and check for an update. I’d suggest once every couple of months will be fine.