taskhost.exe
Host Process for Windows Tasks by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) |
| MD5: | 1226e9fae5b8508801ec974e3c9d9c14 |
| SHA1: | 35b5ac8cf6c55ae354df10ad853c36956f44261b |
| SHA256: | b519b8c49294180678ce042798a1e66f8b9edcea45e8fbf387949c246fe4e2a0 |
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: | 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205) |
| Product version: | 6.0.6000.16386 |
| Size: | 162.5 KB (166,400 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: | 0.00299158% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00250907% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00048251% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,393,040 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 281,858/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 5.15 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 5.56 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.67 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 5.15 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 58.29 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 64.32 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.64 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 7.11 MB | |
| Page faults: | 9,948/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 104.65 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 3/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 724 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 6/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 11 | |
| Handles: | 232 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 29 | |
| GUI USER count: | 22 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- taskeng.exe {aace98d5-c4f0-4612-a3fb-11f785a638e7}
- taskeng.exe {3079ccf8-f86c-44e9-a00b-d7f5257a6875}
- taskeng.exe {2e1ad5ee-6fad-4a7c-b958-01d056996700}
- taskeng.exe {851b3c81-ebb1-4aa9-b77a-7d9ee7979f3a}
- taskeng.exe {0011cd31-4d1e-481a-8158-2791274b2e2d}
- taskeng.exe {38042d00-f9ae-4289-a40b-50182028c31d}
- taskeng.exe {5f893dae-2293-4cd2-9bf1-4ee3b71cbe1e}
- (23 more)
|
| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation) |
Threads
Averages
| TMM.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.07867314% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.07865519% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001796% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,101,261/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.25 MB | |
| RPCRT4.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00379434% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00027923% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00351512% | |
| CPU cycles: | 13,471/sec | |
| Memory: | 780 KB | |
| wdi.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00361008% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00295371% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00065637% | |
| CPU cycles: | 58,228/sec | |
| Memory: | 340 KB | |
| MsCtfMonitor.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00145542% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00131496% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00014046% | |
| CPU cycles: | 35,075/sec | |
| Memory: | 32 KB | |
| MSCTF.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00142866% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00139851% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003015% | |
| CPU cycles: | 32,243/sec | |
| Memory: | 796 KB | |
| WINMM.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00105248% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00103149% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00002100% | |
| CPU cycles: | 5,940/sec | |
| Memory: | 204 KB | |
| wdmaud.drv |
| Total CPU: | 0.00039273% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00036722% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00002551% | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,968/sec | |
| Memory: | 192 KB | |
| taskeng.exe (Task Scheduler Engine by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00025527% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00020937% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00004590% | |
| CPU cycles: | 5,383/sec | |
| Memory: | 172 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00019357% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00019357% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 962/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.12 MB | |
| ole32.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00005387% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00005387% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,856/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.27 MB | |
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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