IEEEASET
Whenever our pc is working slower than our expectations what we always do is press our favourite set of keys(cntrl+alt+del) and check which all processes are consuming the maximum cpu memory.And I am sure while doing this you all must have seen dozens of exe files with the name of svchost.exe.So what exactly is this svchost.exe???
Here it goes....
According to Microsoft: “svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that
run from dynamic-link libraries”. Could we have that in english please?
Some time ago, Microsoft started moving all of the functionality from internal Windows services into .dll
files instead of .exe files. From a programming perspective this makes more sense for reusability… but
the problem is that you can’t launch a .dll file directly from Windows, it has to be loaded up from a
running executable (.exe). Thus the svchost.exe process was born.
Why Are There So Many svchost.exes Running?
If you’ve ever taken a look at the Services section in control panel you might notice that there are a Lot
of services required by Windows. If every single service ran under a single svchost.exe instance, a failure
in one might bring down all of Windows… so they are separated out.
Those services are organized into logical groups, and then a single svchost.exe instance is created for each
group. For instance, one svchost.exe instance runs the 3 services related to the firewall. Another svchost.exe
instance might run all the services related to the user interface, and so on.
So What Can be Done About It?
You can trim down unneeded services by disabling or stopping the services that don’t absolutely need to be running.
Additionally, if you are noticing very heavy CPU usage on a single svchost.exe instance you can restart the services
running under that instance.
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