The ATI Catalyst Control Center software is bundled with the firmware components and driver software utilities that are used by certain devices from ATI Technologies, and the mace.exe process is integrated as one of the components of the ATI Catalyst Control Center application. The mace.exe process is specifically deployed as an EXE application resource file of the Managed Access to Catalyst Environment module, which is an applet built into the ATI Catalyst control Center software. The mace.exe file is placed in the system upon the installation of the firmware utilities and driver software packages of the associated ATI device, which also means the mace.exe process along with the other components distributed with this EXE file are bundled into the installer distributions of these ATI drivers and firmware resources. Compatibility support for widely used versions of Microsoft Windows is embedded into the mace.exe process, its associated component files and libraries, the ATI Catalyst Control Center software and the firmware utilities and driver software resources of these ATI devices.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as ATI Catalyst Control Center and ATI Managed Access to Catalyst Environment Module, 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 mace.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 mace.exe, belongs to, in this case ATI Catalyst Control Center and ATI Managed Access to Catalyst Environment Module