TASKHOST EXE RUNNING PROCESS

Yesterday i was confused with the following taskhost.exe running process in my laptop.The Windows Task Manager lists the processes that are currently running on the computer system. Security conscious users monitor the processes regularly to make sure that no new or rogue processes are running on their personal computer.

Some processes, like firefox.exe or explorer.exe can be identified immediately by their name while others, like taskhost.exe or dwm.exe, require research to find out what the processes are about.

Taskhost.exe is a generic host process for Windows 7 32-bit services. The location in Windows needs to be taskhost.exe is C:\Windows\System32\Taskhost.exe.

Taskhost.exe is a generic process that acts as a host for processes that run from dynamic link libraries (dll) instead of exe. The process checks the Windows Registry on startup to discover dll-based services that need to be loaded. Several instances of taskhost.exe can be running on the same computer system which is still no cause for concern if the taskhost.exe is located in system32 of the Windows operating system.

Taskhost.exe is therefor a core system process of the Windows 7 operating system.

Users who want to analyze the process further to find out which dll-based services are executed by it should install Process Explorer for that task. The free program will display additional information about the underlying dll-based services.