Additional versions

6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)	8.12%
6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)	0.43%
6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)	12.82%
6.3.9431.0 (winmain_bluemp.130615-1214)	1.07%
6.3.9431.0 (winmain_bluemp.130615-1214)	0.21%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	0.64%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	1.28%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	4.91%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	0.43%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	31.41%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	2.99%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	25.21%
6.2.9200.16420 (win8_gdr.120919-1813)	4.06%
6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247)	2.99%
6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247)	2.35%
6.2.8400.0 (winmain_win8rc.120518-1423)	1.07%

Parent process

Related files

This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.

Host Process for Windows Tasks (TASKHOST) 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.

taskhostex.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft). The file is digitally signed by Microsoft Corporation. This version is installed on Windows 8 and is compiled as a 32 bit program.

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00195118%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00122590%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00072528%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	87,743,941 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:	1,250,043/sec	17,470,203/sec
Context switches:	38/sec	284/sec
Memory
Private memory:	4.22 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	11.78 MB
Private (minimum):	5.38 MB
Non-paged memory:	4.22 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	91.77 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	97.37 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	7.47 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	13.03 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	62,185/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	1.97 KB/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	1/sec	343/min
I/O write transfer:	2.76 KB/sec	274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:	1/sec	227/min
I/O other transfer:	51 Bytes/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	5/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	10	12
Handles:	292	600
GUI GDI count:	14	103
GUI GDI peak:	18	142
GUI USER count:	18	49
GUI USER peak:	21	71

ntdll.dll
Total CPU:	0.02581585%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.01704019%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.00877566%	0.165382%
CPU cycles:	768,685/sec	5,741,424/sec
Context switches:	5/sec	79/sec
Memory:	1.41 MB	1.16 MB
WINMM.dll
Total CPU:	0.02135469%
Kernel CPU:	0.01327194%
User CPU:	0.00808275%
CPU cycles:	280,534/sec
Context switches:	10/sec
Memory:	132 KB
MSCTF.dll
Total CPU:	0.00034840%
Kernel CPU:	0.00032926%
User CPU:	0.00001914%
CPU cycles:	11,252/sec
Memory:	884 KB
taskhostex.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.00022621%
Kernel CPU:	0.00015759%
User CPU:	0.00006862%
CPU cycles:	4,625/sec
Memory:	68 KB
ESENT.dll
Total CPU:	0.00016651%
Kernel CPU:	0.00016651%
User CPU:	0.00000000%
CPU cycles:	4,216/sec
Memory:	2.29 MB
MsCtfMonitor.dll
Total CPU:	0.00016282%
Kernel CPU:	0.00012266%
User CPU:	0.00004017%
CPU cycles:	3,204/sec
Memory:	32 KB
PlaySndSrv.dll
Total CPU:	0.00002836%
Kernel CPU:	0.00002836%
User CPU:	0.00000000%
CPU cycles:	644/sec
Memory:	88 KB