The process is known as Activation Licensing Service, and its executable file is fnplicensingservice.exe. This file is utilized by a number of software products where license activation is required in order to completely launch the functions of the program that the software installed. Generally, license activation is only required once – the first time that the client will use the software program or application. Usually, if license activation is not immediately performed by the user, the user will not be given access to the application or program installed by the software. In other cases, the program or the application can be used without activating the license first; but this is usually just for a specific period of time. The file will keep reminding the user about the need to activate the product license, until such time when the user finally activates the product license. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Macrovision Shared\Flexnet Publisher\fnplicensingservice.exe is the standard image path of the file.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Activation Licensing Service, 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 fnplicensingservice.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 fnplicensingservice.exe, belongs to, in this case Activation Licensing Service