taskhost.exe
Host Process for Windows Tasks by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) |
| MD5: | e5bbfc283d6f5d69b41e464676361020 |
| SHA1: | eb1176b548f178ccfbeb073e0ffebdf598510db9 |
| SHA256: | 12b6606c84b946053c76b9596ff3fd0394dfb573e8cfa514d6beb161c862184b |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
What is taskhost.exe?
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.
Overview
Details
| File name: | taskhost.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Host Process for Windows Tasks |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe |
| Original name: | taskhost.exe.mui |
| File version: | 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) |
| Product version: | 6.0.6000.16386 |
| Size: | 166 KB (169,984 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, July 9, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.163300 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.01524817% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01355992% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00168825% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 423,485 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 4.61 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 7.11 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 6.86 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 4.61 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 68.92 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 76.59 MB | |
| Working set: | 6.88 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 8.75 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 7 | |
| Handles: | 201 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 26 | |
| GUI USER count: | 16 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- taskeng.exe {087bf0ea-4372-4889-8824-7916c9880c7c}
- taskeng.exe {0a4c312c-6aa3-4b29-87b7-95941cdae0e0}
- taskeng.exe {aa1cc16b-e9be-4dfc-90b9-33f7b19875e5}
- taskeng.exe {fbac1e96-2f30-4520-a297-7f650d14e484}
- taskeng.exe {973eb6b6-fa31-4ad5-911d-d0009a8a94b9}
- taskeng.exe {1e73ee3e-c9ee-4ad0-9a38-d175706f04b7}
- taskeng.exe {fa396703-ddf3-4b07-b38b-21bb08680fc1}
- (7 more)
|
| Owner: | LOCAL SERVICE |
| Parent process: | svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation) |
Threads
Averages
| taskeng.exe (Betriebssystem Microsoft Windows by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.01771560% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01632989% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00138571% | |
| CPU cycles: | 348,148/sec | |
| Memory: | 172 KB | |
| RPCRT4.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.01608769% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01608769% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 31,552/sec | |
| Memory: | 780 KB | |
| WINMM.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00352119% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00176059% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00176059% | |
| CPU cycles: | 150,751/sec | |
| Memory: | 200 KB | |
| MsCtfMonitor.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00351902% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00351902% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 103,427/sec | |
| Memory: | 32 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
45.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
19.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
10.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
8.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
6.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8 |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
1.50% |
|
| Windows Seven Black Edition |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro Preview |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 48.24% of Host Process for Windows Tasks.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
25.48% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
18.92% |
|
| ASUS |
17.76% |
|
| Acer |
13.13% |
|
| Toshiba |
8.49% |
|
| Lenovo |
5.41% |
|
| Sony |
5.41% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
1.54% |
|
| Medion |
1.54% |
|
| Alienware |
1.16% |
|
| Samsung |
0.77% |
|
| Sahara |
0.39% |
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