gHacks technology news » svchost.exe http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:30:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Svchost Process Analyzer http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/22/svchost-process-analyzer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/22/svchost-process-analyzer/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 13:21:39 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/22/svchost-process-analyzer/ microsoft windowsSvchost.exe seems to be one of the most secretive processes on the Windows operating system. Users who take a look at the Windows task manager usually discover that the svchost process is running multiple times. The task manager however does not provide detailed access to what every instance of the process does on the computer system.

Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries. One software program to analyze the svchost process in detail is Svchost Process Analyzer. The portable software program has been specifically designed to reveal detailed information about each svchost process that is running on the computer system.

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While Svchost Process Analyzer does not provide the details that popular process managers like Process Explorer provide it does list the information in a comprehensible manner. The process analyzer will scan all svchost processes that are running on the Windows operating system upon startup. A click on details will open the main application window that lists every svchost process in the top window and details about the selected process in the window at the bottom.

Each entry in the lower window is displayed by name, service name and file. Svchost Process Analyzer is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/22/svchost-process-analyzer/feed/ 9 svchost Viewer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/29/svchost-viewer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/29/svchost-viewer/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:13:29 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6609 The software program of choice to analyze processes is usually Process Explorer from Sysinternals. Yes, there are other applications that do the same but Process Explorer is probably the standard application. The Open Source program svchost viewer concentrates on the scvhost service only which somewhat limits its usability.

It does not seem to provide any additional information that a user could not get out of Process Explorer but it provides the advantage that it is not overladen with additional features and other services. The software program scans all svchost processes that are currently running on the system and displays them in a tree view that can be expanded to show additional information and the services that are run under each svchost entry.

This has caused lots of confusion by users in the past who wondered why several svchost.exe processes were running in the Windows Task Manager.

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The services under each svchost process are listed in the left pane, a click opens detailed information about each service in the right larger pane of the application.

It details the amount of computer memory a svchost process is using currently as well as a description and program path to the services it has spawned.

The svchost viewer application is portable and should run under Windows XP and Windows Vista. The Microsoft .net Framework 2.0 or higher is required to run it. The application itself takes up only 40 Kilobyte on the hard drive.

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