The arcext.dll is a library file part of WinAce-Archiver Shell Extension from the company E-merge GmbH. WinAce is not only an archiving shell extension but also has a compression format ACE and built-in support for other archiver formats or compression types like JAVA JAR, LHA, RAR, ZIP, and MS-CAB. It also has a decompression management for ACE, LHA, MS-CAB, ZIP, ARC, RAR, GZip, TAR, ZOO, JAR, and ARJ formats. It may also as well replace the user current file explorer. Its features also include multi-volume (disk spanning) for ACE, ZIP, CAB and self-extracting archives (SFX) for ACE and ZIP formats. It has a password encryption and recovery records for user’s data security and protection. It includes integrity checks and detailed information for all the archive files formats mentioned. Its Quikviewer for graphic files, Word Documents, HTML pages and ASCII files lets users have quick access to these files. Overall, the WinAce-Archiver Shell Extension is a complete file management for optimizing, copying, deleting files, directories, and moving existing archives to the user PC.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. arcext.dll. is used by WinAce-Archiver Shell Extension, If you shut down arcext.dll, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop arcext.dll, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is WinAce-Archiver Shell Extension, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed arcext.dll

A process usually a part of an installed application such as WinAce-Archiver Shell Extension, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if arcext.dll. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that arcext.dll, belongs to, in this case WinAce-Archiver Shell Extension