

The Windows Task Manager allows the user to determine the processes running within a specific instance of the svchost.exe process first click theĭetails tab, then click the "PID" column to order each running process by its PID (ascending order is the best way): in this example, look at the process whose PID is 528. Sometimes it could be necessary to know which processes are running within a specific instance of the Service Host process: there are several ways to get such an information using the operating system's built-in tools as well as additional tools: let's takeĪ look at. There can be several instances of this special process running at any moment on a Windows system and each of them puts additional load on the system. The Windows Service Host process (also known as svchost, whose executable file is C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe) is a special process used by Windows to execute multiple instances of services and processes, started both from an executable (.EXE) file andįrom a dynamic link library (.DLL) file.
