Whenever a Windows OS users opens up Task Manger, one of the processes they will spot for sure is the cryptically named SvcHost. The feature was originally added back in the infancy of Windows NT as a ...

Having multiple instances of "Svchost.exe" in the task manager is only a concern if memory use grows to an unreasonable amount. Excessive memory use could mean corruption or some other conflict within ...

A very common question we see here at Bleeping Computer involves people concerned that there are too many SVCHOST.EXE processes running on their computer. The confusion typically stems from a lack of ...

Svchost.exeOne of the most mysterious processes in Windows.DLLIt is a generic name of the host process running in. It is svchost.exe used in many processes, but viruses etc use this file and hide its ...

Process Explorer from Sysinternals can tell you which services are being hosted by each copy of svchost.exe as well, if you really wanted to know.

Microsoft has been making it clear for several years that it will cut off support for Windows XP on April 8th, 2014. The 12 year old operating system is still being used by a large percentage of PC ...