The file encwcbar.dll, known as Microsoft Encarta Web Companion, belongs to software Microsoft Encarta Premium by Microsoft. Microsoft Encarta is a digital encyclopedia published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009. Encarta Premium is the English version that contains more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, maps and atlas, and video clips including interactive content. It was available for yearly subscription from the World Wide Web or by purchase of DVD or multiple CDs. Encarta is available in other languages such as German, Italian, Dutch, French and Japanese. Encarta features dynamic maps that were generated from the engine that powered Microsoft MapPoint software. The map in Encarta is a virtual globe that can freely rotate and magnify to any location down to major streets in big cities. Encarta features a trivia game called MindMaze in which the player explores a castle by answering questions whose answers can be found in the encyclopedia's articles.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Microsoft Encarta Premium, 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 encwcbar.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 encwcbar.dll, belongs to, in this case Microsoft Encarta Premium