Updated : July 27, 2005
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Description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP
Each instance of svchost.exe process seen in the Task Manager hosts a group of services. To see the list of services hosted by each instance of svchost.exe, you may use the Tasklist.exe console utility available in Windows XP Professional Edition.
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Click Start, Run and type CMD.EXE
Type tasklist /svc >c:\taskList.txt
The taskList.txt will contain the list of Processes, their Process IDs and the Services running under each Process.
Note: Tasklist.exe is not included in Windows XP Home
Edition. You may use
Process Explorer to view this information.
WARNING: There are viruses circulating in the internet which uses the same name as svchost.exe. The legit svchost.exe will be present in the %windir%\system32 folder.
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