I have 5 of those running, i know its something required, but is 5 ? Whats up with that ?
2006-11-06 10:45:42 · 3 answers · asked by YahooAnswers 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
And all are using internet except one...
2006-11-06 10:48:04 · update #1
This is the Windows Service Host management program. If you want details of the running services, go take a look in Start->Control Panel->(classic view)->Administrative Tools->Services.
2006-11-06 10:51:22 · answer #1 · answered by juliepelletier 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will have Svchost.exe running, that's normal.
In short, it's a Service Host that handles Dynamic Link Labraries...parts of a program shared by many different applications. Several run at once, because each is actually being used by several different programs/processes.
2006-11-06 18:49:06 · answer #2 · answered by Tim 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, this is normal. svchost is like a generic Windows process that other processes use to do stuff so it's typical to have a load of them running on your machine and I wouldn't worry about it. For instance, my machine's running pretty lean, I don't have any unneccesary applications installed and I've shut down all the Windows Services I don't need and I've still got five of them running at the moment.
More info about svchost here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svchost
2006-11-06 18:50:58 · answer #3 · answered by Bamba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋