The wmiadap.exe process is also known as the WMI and is owned by the Microsoft Corporation. It gives its interface uniformity for any remote or local scripts or applications that gathers management data from a PC system, an enterprise or a network. This uniform interface is built so that the WMI client scripts and applications would not need to make calls on differing operating system APIs (application programming interfaces). Many APIs are not called by automation clients unlike Visual Basic applications or scripts. There are also other APIs that do not make calls to computers from remote locations. This program is an infrastructure for management operations and data for the Windows operating systems. The user can write WMI applications and scripts to operate administrative tasks from a remote computer; the WMI also provides management data to systems like System Center Operations Manager (Microsoft Operations Manager or MOM) or WinRM (Windows Remote Management). This file is considered to be safe and does not present any hazardous elements.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as WMI, 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 wmiadap.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 wmiadap.exe, belongs to, in this case WMI