What is svchost.exe?

svchost.exe is a shared service process that allows many Windows services to share a single process. Sharing a single process helps Windows to decrease its overall resource usage. By checking your Windows Task Manager you’ll notice that more than one Windows service can run under svchost.exe. To see the additional services running under svchost.exe go to the Windows Task Manager and click the arrow directly to the right of the svchost.exe (service host). The Windows Task Manager makes it easy to see what all is running under svchost.exe. Right click the Windows bottom task bar to select and open the Task Manager.

Windows uses svchost.exe files to launch the DLLs (dynamic-link libraries) that help Windows processes run efficiently