The process ent.exe, known as Essential NetTools, belongs to software Essential NetTools by TamoSoft. This software is a set of security, network scanning, and administrator tools that is useful in diagnosing nertworks and monitoring the computer's network connections. This powerful network tool kit contains a wide selection of tools like NetStat, NBScan, PortScan, and HostAlive and other tools for maintaining a secure network. NetStat displays the computer's inbound and outbound connections, including the information on open TCP and UDP ports, IP address, and connection states. It has the ability to map open ports to the owning application. NBScan is the tool that scans NetBIOS, which has the capability to scan a network within a given range of IP addresses and list computers offering NetBIOS resource-sharing service, as well as their name tables and MAC addresses. Network monitoring can be done with HostAlive to periodically check if a host is alive and running network services, such as an HTTP or FTP server.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Essential NetTools, 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 ent.exe. 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 ent.exe, belongs to, in this case Essential NetTools