Monday, March 18, 2013

What is the actual service running behind svchost.exe

I knew that a lot of Windows Services (available as DLLs) run under the host process svchost.exe during start-up. But is there any way to find out what is the actual mapping service behind each svchost.exe? Sometimes, the svchost.exe process occupies a lot of CPU/memory resources and we need to know the actual service behind it.

The answer is very simple on Windows 7. Press "Ctr+Shift+Esc" to open the Task Manager.
Click on "Show processes from all users". Just right click on any svchost.exe process and in the context menu, select "Go To Service". You would be redirected to the Services Tab, wherein the appropriate service would be highlighted.

Another nifty way is to use the following command on the cmd prompt:
tasklist /svc /fi "imagename eq svchost.exe"

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