The file nilm.exe is a process file from the company National Instruments Corp., and is known as the NI License Manager Daemon. A software license manager is a tool used by software vendors and end-user groups to control where and how software is used. FLEXnet Licensing is licensing management software that uses the application NI License Manager Daemon. The two components of the license manager daemon are lmgrd, which comprise the license server, and the vendor daemon. lmgrd handles the initial contact with FlexIm-licensed applications and passes the connection on to the identified vendor daemon. The license manager lmgrd starts and maintains all the vendor daemons listed in the vendor lines, and refer application requests to the correct vendor daemon. The two daemons (lmgrd and vendor) work together to manage the license keys. The lmgrd on Windows is a Windows NT service by default. It starts on TCP/IP port 27000 (default) when the server is started and will assign a random TCP/ IP port number to the vendor daemon, and start the vendor daemon on that port.

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

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