The file fadpu16e.sys, known as Fadpu16E, is a process in the CD/DVD protection software SecuROM. CDs and DVDs that contain the process fadpu16e.sys are resistant to home media duplication devices, professional duplicators, and reverse engineering software. SecuROM is a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system for content distributed through CD-ROM and DVD-ROM that is maintained by Sony DADC primarily to protect computer games from duplication. Discs are copy protected through the method called data position measurement (DPM) that functions by measuring the physical location of a data on the CD or DVD. The launch of the executable file SecuROM that is supported by fadpu16e.sys authenticates the activation license of the CD or DVD. This process has a hardware-level incompatibility with certain brands of optical drives, and conflicts with other software that produce an error that is caused by the driver fadpu16e.sys that remains in the computer's memory.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. fadpu16e.sys. is used by SecuROM, If you shut down fadpu16e.sys, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop fadpu16e.sys, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is SecuROM, 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 fadpu16e.sys

A process usually a part of an installed application such as SecuROM, 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 fadpu16e.sys. 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 fadpu16e.sys, belongs to, in this case SecuROM