The file esri.exe, known as Imgr 326b, belongs to software ESRI License Manager by Globetrotter Software. ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) is a service and software development company that provides Geographic Information System (GIS) software and geodatabase applications, including the ArcGIS Desktop. The ESRI license Manager allows users to install ArcGIS Desktop and ArcInfo Workstation on as many machines possible, but the number of licenses purchased determines the number of users who can run the products simultaneously. The License Manager can be installed on a machine where ArcGIS floating products will be run or on a machine where only the license manager will be installed. Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system designed to capture, manipulate, analyze, store and present all types of geographical data. The License Manager requires the installation of FLEXIm that communicates through TCP/IP and functioning properly on any Windows license server. FLEXIm software is a license management solution that allows software vendors to limit the number of software seats available to their users.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as ESRI License Manager, 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 esri.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 esri.exe, belongs to, in this case ESRI License Manager