taskhostex.exe
Host Process for Windows Tasks by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623) |
| MD5: | 40bd4960734b0fa0872af71b1e4314ce |
| SHA1: | cd5833098a7b72fa5977ef805bfed77e38af8c4a |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
What is taskhostex.exe?
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.
Overview
Details
| File name: | taskhostex.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Host Process for Windows Tasks |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\taskhostex.exe |
| Original name: | taskhostex.exe.mui |
| File version: | 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623) |
| Product version: | 6.3.9600.16384 |
| Size: | 77.67 KB (79,536 bytes) |
| Build date: | 8/22/2013 5:52 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, July 9, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| 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: | 0.00347100% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00197207% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00149893% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 2,116,910 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 558,706/sec | |
| Context switches: | 20/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 7.96 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 17.2 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 8.67 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 7.96 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 268.56 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 286.14 MB | |
| Working set: | 13.59 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 18.12 MB | |
| Page faults: | 32,547/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 37.03 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 187.25 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 8/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 478 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 74/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 9 | |
| Handles: | 310 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 16 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 19 | |
| GUI USER count: | 17 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 20 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.06458605% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.04199571% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02259034% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,561,643/sec | |
| Context switches: | 8/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
| WINMM.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00555467% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00376658% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00178810% | |
| CPU cycles: | 128,189/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 124 KB | |
| ESENT.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00067821% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00052380% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00015441% | |
| CPU cycles: | 15,400/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.69 MB | |
| taskhostex.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00062625% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00046531% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00016094% | |
| CPU cycles: | 15,507/sec | |
| Memory: | 84 KB | |
| MSCTF.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00061669% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00061669% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,466/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.22 MB | |
| MsCtfMonitor.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00043224% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00037591% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00005633% | |
| CPU cycles: | 14,345/sec | |
| Memory: | 44 KB | |
| msched.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00024665% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00024665% | |
| CPU cycles: | 5,953/sec | |
| Memory: | 148 KB | |
| PlaySndSrv.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00012493% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00012493% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,286/sec | |
| Memory: | 100 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 8.1 |
27.00% |
|
| Windows 8 |
22.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
14.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
11.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
5.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
5.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
3.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
2.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro Preview |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise N |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language Preview |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 40.70% of Host Process for Windows Tasks.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
14.50% |
|
| ASUS |
14.50% |
|
| Lenovo |
14.50% |
|
| Dell |
12.98% |
|
| Acer |
12.60% |
|
| Toshiba |
12.21% |
|
| Sony |
7.63% |
|
| Intel |
4.58% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
2.67% |
|
| Samsung |
1.53% |
|
| Alienware |
0.76% |
|
| Medion |
0.76% |
|
| American Megatrends |
0.76% |
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