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Svchost exe What is it?

Anyone who's opened the Task Manager in any version of Windows has seen the process “svchost.exe” at one point or another. What's more confusing is that svchost is usually found to have more than one entry What are they all doing there and just how much of our precious memory are they wasting?

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Svchost is kind of a catch-all. It is used to host multiple services within one process. This helps to actually conserve memory in your system by having one process govern many. Tings such as Windows Update, the Event Log, Audio Services and bunches of other programs, processes and a the like are all found under the svchost umbrella.

If you want to identify what services are using svchost there are a couple of different ways.

In Windows XP: Open a Command Prompt and after going to the route of C: ( i.e. CD C:\ ) type without the quotes “tasklist /svc”. This will bring up a list of what processes are running under svchost, and when you do you will observe how important it is.  