Versions

6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)	1.03%
6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)	0.06%
6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)	1.66%
6.3.9431.0 (winmain_bluemp.130615-1214)	0.11%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	0.06%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	0.17%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	1.09%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	3.44%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	0.46%
6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247)	0.34%
6.2.8400.0 (winmain_win8rc.120518-1423)	0.17%
6.2.8250.0 (winmain_win8beta.120217-1520)	0.06%
6.2.8102.0 (winmain_win8m3.110823-1455)	0.11%
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)	7.63%
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)	14.75%
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)	11.88%
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)	4.71%
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)	0.23%
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)	0.06%
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)	37.83%
6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)	14.12%

This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.

taskhost.exe has 21 known versions, the most recent one is 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623). taskhost.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. The average file size is about 64.81 KB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Microsoft Corporation by the certification authority Microsoft Corporation. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is less than 0.01%, the average private memory consumption is about 13.18 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 15.45 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 58.84 KB per minute for reads and 70.69 KB per minute for writes.

Host Process for Windows Tasks is a generic process which acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs rather than EXEs. At startup TASKHOST checks the Services portion of the Registry to construct a list of DLL-based services that it needs to load, and then loads them.