taskhost.exe
Host Process for Windows Tasks by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255) |
| MD5: | f8952e80b7f778da2f7aa8393ca2d30e |
| SHA1: | f40f9c09e4cae7bf9bebeca463f1e43ef0f3a2d4 |
| SHA256: | 9b1a15b05c805ff3896de850a00a1a9d19199e781b4fd0a484f704b925308739 |
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: | 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255) |
| Product version: | 6.1.7600.16385 |
| Size: | 187.5 KB (192,000 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: | 0.00995538% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00599139% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00396400% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 396,185 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 61,903/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.44 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 4.54 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 3.35 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.44 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 40.66 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 45.26 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.5 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 4.78 MB | |
| Page faults: | 4,176/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 987 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 24 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 3.63 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 15/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 5 | |
| Handles: | 113 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 11 | |
| GUI USER count: | 3 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 3 | |
Process properties
Threads
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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