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
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
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
Process properties
 Threads
Threads
 Distribution by Windows OS
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
Distribution by country
United States installs about 48.24% of Host Process for Windows Tasks.
 Distribution by PC manufacturer
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% |  |