Process Hacker is another popular free and powerful open source task manager that is capable of showing and controlling the services from svchosts. Just like Process Explorer, double click on svchost. The list of associates services is shown and you can stop or pause the service.
Double clicking on the service will bring up a more advanced property window to configure the permissions, startup type, error control and many more. Download Process Hacker. Svchost Process Analyzer is a free and portable program that analyzes the svchost. Clicking on any ID on the top window will display the services at the bottom together with the DLL file and status.
The description of the service will automatically refresh and shown at the top bar of the program. This tool can only display information but lack of control options.
Download Svchost Process Analyzer. Svchost Viewer is another free and open source utility hosted at CodePlex that gives you the basic information such as service name and description. There are also two checkboxes to show if the service can be paused or stopped. A piece of interesting information shown in Svchost Viewer is the amount of data written and read.
Download Svchost Viewer. Services In Svchost is a very simple program that simply shows the services in the svchosts. There is no description, no control, or DLL file information. The only unique feature found in this utility is the ability to view the services on remote computers by entering the computer name or IP address. There are requirements if you want to get the services on remote computer.
Once you know what services are running within svchost. Open Task Manager. Select the Processes tab. Tap-and-hold or right-click the entry and select Open file location. If the location that opens is anything other than either of the following paths, which are where Windows stores authentic copies of svchost. The second path is where bit services running on a bit machine are located. Not all computers have that folder. Back in Task Manager, select the arrow to the left of the entry to expand it.
Located directly under the svchost. For other versions of Windows like Windows 7, you can also use Task Manager to see all the services used by svchost. You can do that by right-clicking an svchost. Another option is to use the tasklist command in Command Prompt to spit out a list of all the services used by all the svchost. To do that, open Command Prompt and enter the following command:.
Another option you have here is to use a redirection operator to export the results of the command to a text file which might be easier to read. You can do that in Windows 10 or 8 through Task Manager, by right-clicking the service and choosing Search online. To shut down a service running in svchost. Like any process, svchost. A big reason for svchost. This could happen if Windows Update is working to download and install patches and other updates.
Other services that are used under svchost. Something you can do to stop the svchost process from sucking away so much memory or some other system resource, is to stop the services that are to blame.
For example, if svchost. Or maybe Disk Defragmenter is defragmenting your hard drive, in which case Service Host will use more memory for that task. However, svchost. If svchost. What most people probably want to do with the svchost process is delete or disable a service running inside svchost.
However, even if you want to delete svchost. Right-click the svchost. Identify the service you want to disable. Right-click the Task Manager entry for the service you want to shut down, and choose Stop. Windows will immediately stop that service. Any system resources it was using will be freed for other services and applications.
To stop it from running again, double-click the service from the list and change the Startup type to Disabled. If you have an svchost. Follow these steps to remove the virus:.
Remember that if the folder that opens is one of the System folders mentioned above, your svchost. Finally, you can use a third-party program from Microsoft called Process Explorer. Just download it, unzip it and run the EXE file. There is no need to install anything, which is convenient.
Click on the header for the Process column to sort the list of processes and then scroll down till you see svchost. Go ahead and hover your mouse over any process and it will show you the services that are associated with that process. So those are a couple of simple and easy ways to learn more about the svchost.
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