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%

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

taskhostex.exe has 16 known versions, the most recent one is 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623). taskhostex.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. The average file size is about 64.78 KB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Microsoft Corporation by the certification authority Microsoft Corporation. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0030% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 7.2 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 17.19 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 29.46 KB per minute for reads and 119.2 KB per minute for writes.

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.