taskhost.exe
Host Process for Windows Tasks by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) |
| MD5: | 3d50c4b10352367d5cb20ed1f50f8da2 |
| SHA1: | ec2b60c6859e80f0e6a3dc964516fb40a062d3e5 |
| SHA256: | 03c2732f2df18ce8cc3cb9ebf2f811a2333c96d8bbc9111f6cce15a09d8e63e6 |
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
taskhost.exe executes as a process under the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges (the system and the administrator accounts have the same file privileges) typically within the context of its parent
svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation). The file is digitally signed by Microsoft Corporation. This version is designed to run on Windows Vista and is compiled as a 32 bit program.
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: | 167.5 KB (171,520 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: | 0.00251755% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00174096% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00077660% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 523,419 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 93,843/sec | |
| Context switches: | 10/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 4.99 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 6.77 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 4.16 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 4.99 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 69.85 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 76.43 MB | |
| Working set: | 4.95 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 7.79 MB | |
| Page faults: | 13,460/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.65 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 2 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 671 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 11/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 9 | |
| Handles: | 221 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 25 | |
| GUI USER count: | 19 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- taskeng.exe {5fa423ef-f4dc-4aa1-91bd-6890b1b270a4}
- taskeng.exe {b1549fdd-d04b-4792-9887-de380c37aa17}
- taskeng.exe {5b3c3b14-b132-4323-a375-96f36c27489b}
- taskeng.exe {8e37e143-7dce-41f6-b6f9-86e0a69a801f}
- taskeng.exe {31396ef3-2767-4986-9464-d707715053c6}
- taskeng.exe {0931f8b1-46c3-4844-b3da-09c544f49c39}
- taskeng.exe {0928e030-f794-4077-9827-2d4048dadb90}
- (200 more)
|
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Parent process: | svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation) |
Threads
Averages
| RPCRT4.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.01003589% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00888555% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00115033% | |
| CPU cycles: | 210,206/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 776 KB | |
| WINMM.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00388243% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00155297% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00232946% | |
| CPU cycles: | 42,512/sec | |
| Memory: | 200 KB | |
| TMM.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00282185% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00267492% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00014693% | |
| CPU cycles: | 218,627/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.25 MB | |
| taskeng.exe (Task Scheduler Engine by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00150386% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00085436% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00064950% | |
| CPU cycles: | 22,525/sec | |
| Memory: | 176 KB | |
| MsCtfMonitor.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00103196% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00081994% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00021203% | |
| CPU cycles: | 25,660/sec | |
| Memory: | 32 KB | |
| MSCTF.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00071362% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00064048% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00007314% | |
| CPU cycles: | 14,775/sec | |
| Memory: | 800 KB | |
| ole32.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00042905% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00041337% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001567% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,754/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.27 MB | |
| wdmaud.drv |
| Total CPU: | 0.00027448% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00008806% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00018641% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,351/sec | |
| Memory: | 188 KB | |
| wdi.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00003867% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000519% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003348% | |
| CPU cycles: | 662/sec | |
| Memory: | 84 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00003842% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00003645% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000197% | |
| CPU cycles: | 580/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.16 MB | |
| HotStartUserAgent.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00003821% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00003641% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000180% | |
| CPU cycles: | 431/sec | |
| Memory: | 32 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
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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