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Information and help with Windows svchost.exe.

Additional Information:

The svchost.exe file is a Microsoft file used to handle the processes running from DLLs in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. This file is located in the Windows system32 folder.

Question:

Why do I have multiple svchost.exe files listed in Windows Task Managers processes?

Answer:

Multiple svchost.exe files are loaded when a program needs to be grouped from other Windows services. This is a normal operation of Windows and it is common to see three or four svchost.exe in the Task Manager processes.

Question:

Is the svchost.exe file a virus?

Answer:

There are viruses that can infect this file and may run as a SVCHOST.EXE service. If you think your computer may be infected with a computer virus that is causing problems with this service we recommend you update your virus protection program and visit the Microsoft Windows update page instead of attempting to manually fixing the problem.

SVCHOST.EXE error with 0xe03c3a68 or computer crashes with this file when opening Microsoft Internet Explorer

Users experiencing an error with the above memory address are infected with the blaster virus.

Question:

How do I determine what each of the svchost.exe files are running?

Answer:

To determine what is in the svchost.exe file you will need either run tlist.exe if you are running Windows 2000 or tasklist.exe if you are running Windows XP.

Running the program

Windows 2000 users can run this program by clicking Start / Run and type "command" or "cmd" and press enter. From the MS-DOS prompt type "tlist -s" and press enter.

Windows XP users can run this program by clicking Start / Run and type "command" or "cmd" and press enter. From the MS-DOS prompt type "tasklist /svc" and press enter.

* If you are unable to run or locate this file on the computer see below steps on installing this file onto your computer.

Windows 2000 Installation

If you do not have this directory you will need to install the Microsoft Windows 2000 support tools. To do this place the Windows 2000 CD into the computer and run setup.exe from \SUPPORT\TOOLS directory.

Windows XP Installation

Windows XP Professional users that are unable to locate this file can expand it from the i386 directory on their Windows XP Professional CD or download the file from the above link. Unfortunately the Windows XP Home CD does not contain this file.

Example of what is seen:

Below is an example of what Windows 2000 would display for the svchost services. When running either tlist.exe or tasklist.exe you should receive information similar to the below example.

444 svchost.exe Svcs: RpcSs
552 svchost.exe Svcs: EventSystem,Netman,NtmsSvc,RasMan,SENS,TapiSrv
792 svchost.exe Svcs: wuauserv

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Tried the tasklist /svs as instructed All I got was a Dos window then a Flash of Data and then a Shut down of the dos window

Hya Ocker.

Did you type tasklist /svc, or tasklist /svs?