ApMsgFwd.exe is part of ApMsgFwd developed by Alps Electric Co., Ltd. that comes with DELL notebooks. It is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. You can close ApMsgFwd.exe at any point of time to free up system resources.

To ensure if the file belongs to Alps Electric Co., Ltd., you can check in properties if it contains information like "Vendor contains: Alps Electric Co., Ltd. Product is not specified". If this information does not match, then it may be a different file which you have to fix as fast as possible.
Non-system processes like apmsgfwd.exe originate from software you installed on your system. Since most applications store data on your hard disk and in your system's registry, it is likely that your computer has suffered fragmentation and accumulated invalid entries which can affect your PC's performance.

In Windows Task Manager, you can see what CPU, memory, disk and network utilization is causing the ApMsgFwd process. To access the Task Manager, hold down the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys at the same time. These three buttons are located on the far left of your keyboard.

This process is considered safe. It is unlikely to pose any harm to your system. The apmsgfwd.exe file should be located in the folder C:\Program Files\apoint or C:\Program Files\apoint2k. Otherwise it could be a Trojan.

This process is not considered CPU intensive. However, running too many processes on your system may affect your PC’s performance. To reduce system overload, you can use the Microsoft System Configuration Utility (MSConfig) or the Windows Task Manager to manually find and disable processes that launch upon start-up.

Use the Windows Resource Monitor to find out which processes and applications write/read the most on the hard drive, send the most data to the Internet, or use the most memory. To access the Resource Monitor, press the key combination Windows key + R and then enter 'resmon'.