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What application is running behind svchost.exe in Windows?

Task Manager can be opened in different ways via Taskbar, pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc or right clicking on the Windows icon and selecting Task Manager.

In Task Manager window, it will show what are the processes or services running on the system.

On the Details Tab of the Task Manager the details of the .exe file or the applications or services running on the system will be displayed.

One noticeable thing on Task Manager is the svchost.exe, depending on how busy the system is or how many applications, browsers or other items that will need to connect to svchost.exe. The said exe file can easily be seen on Task Manager since there will be few of them.

 

But what is the application running behind the svchost.exe? Or what is occupying or using svchost.exe? Why there are a few of them running on the system?

To get to the bottom of all the questions above, PID or Process ID will show what is behind the svchost.exe.

To do this, open an elevated CMD or command prompt window.

Check out this link if you don’t know how to open an elevated command prompt or CMD.

How to open Elevated CMD?

Under the elevated CMD window, type: netstat -anob

Yes, netstat a networking utility. But the -anob options will tell list the application running, it will show the protocol whether it’s UDP or TCP, the .exe file that is linked to an IP Address and of course the PID or process ID also.

 

Example, image below shows that PID 8568 in Task Manager which is svchost.exe is actually connected to Chrom.exe which has a local IP Address and is utilizing SSDPSRV.

Simple Service Discovery Protocol = (SSDP)

So, svchost.exe is not just a simple executable file that is running on Task Manager but the exe file is attached to another process, service or application behind the scene.

 




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