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
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
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
Process properties
 Threads
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
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
Distribution by country
United States installs about 40.70% of Host Process for Windows Tasks.
 Distribution by PC manufacturer
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% |  |