The zoom.exe is an executable file mostly used by the Vimicro Corporation for their web camera drivers and software. The zoom.exe executable allows the user to digitally zoom a photo being captured live, hence its name. Once a Vimicro software or Vimicro-related hardware is launched, the zoom.exe process launches together with it to use the digital zooming capabilities of the Vimicro software or hardware. The Vimicro Corporation is a company which specializes in multimedia solutions such as PC and netbook cameras, surveillance cameras, and mobile audio and video processors. The zoom.exe executable is one of the main components of PC camera software that are used in various versions of operating systems and is used in most of Vimicro’s multimedia solutions, such as MP4 players which have cameras. The zoom.exe executable is in continuing development and is being used by other companies for web cameras and software, like A4Tech cameras and the AMCap software.

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

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