The file execuser.exe, known as ExecUser MFC Application, belongs to software ExecUser Application that relates to the Backup Exec application from Symantec. Backup Exec is an integrated product that protects virtual and physical environments that simplifies both backup and disaster recovery. This application recovers data or systems at any scale, from an individual item or file to an entire server. It employs V-Ray technology that restores entire servers, critical Microsoft applications, and VMWare or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual guests. Backup Exec delivers centralized management that easily extends the user's backup infrastructure across distributed environments and remote offices. A streamlined administration console can be used to manage physical or virtual server protection, and to manage backup and recovery operations for both simple and complex IT environments. It reduces storage costs and at the same time increases backup speed with deduplication and archiving, and offers network bandwidth reduction for local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) backup.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Backup Exec, 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 execuser.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 execuser.exe, belongs to, in this case Backup Exec