Fhgaacenc.exe 【Chrome】

Because the process encodes audio in real-time, it can consume 10–30% CPU if the microphone is active. If you see high usage and you want microphone monitoring, this indicates the Family Safety feature is mistakenly running.

In plain English, fhgaacenc.exe is a used by the Microsoft Family Safety app. Its primary job is to capture and encode microphone audio when parental controls are actively monitoring a child’s device. For example, if a parent sets up activity reporting or consent prompts that require voice verification, this process handles the audio compression into AAC format to transmit efficiently. fhgaacenc.exe