The file ence55.exe is a process file distributed with certain applications from Guidance Software, which is a company engaged in providing solutions in areas such as Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, and E-Discovery. The file ence55.exe is a process that is installed in the computer from a solution offered by Guidance Software, and it relates to software Encase Enterprise. This software is used in digital investigations and enables users who are mainly security analysts and investigators to immediately and thoroughly search, preserve, collect, and analyze data from servers and workstations anywhere on the corporate network without disrupting operations. Its features include complete endpoint visibility that enables the user to see the search results on a timeline or calendar that shows the viewed files in their native formats, built-in registry views, and process and system information views. It produces an exact binary duplicate of the digital evidence and verifies these by generating MD5 hash values for related image files and assigning CRC values to the data, which can show if evidence has been altered or tampered with.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. ence55.exe. is used by Encase Enterprise, If you shut down ence55.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop ence55.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Encase Enterprise, 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 ence55.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Encase Enterprise, 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 ence55.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 ence55.exe, belongs to, in this case Encase Enterprise