What is the "prevhost.exe" ? Variant 17820830

Our database contains 65 different files for filename prevhost.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the prevhost.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name prevhost.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Preview Handler Surrogate Host. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 1 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process prevhost.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Preview Handler Surrogate Host
Version:: 6.1.7100.0
MD5:: 2ed0b124d303508639a844f75b73861a
SHA1:: 803d585b6c82f3c722c9a9872999c7b93de56f6c
SHA256:: f2573534638af76045b9021095823342346c4472324e45f919e7b5fa13a48db2
Size:: 31232
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows 7
Occurence:: Low

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Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
avast! Antivirus	2013-01-26 21:32:13

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SAFErating from user MikeOne (Variant: 17820830)
This file is an integral part of MS Windows, marked as a Preview Handler Surrogate Host - which is not very descriptive in the context of the file's actions. This file is used when a preview of a document (doesn't matter what type of document, if the association with the file extension is there in the system) should be shown to the user. This file can throw error if the preview can not be performed. Check this article about related problems : http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/138477-Preview-Handler-Surrogate-Host

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SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\prevhost.exe (Variant: 16813031)
This file is an integral part of MS Windows, marked as a Preview Handler Surrogate Host - which is not very descriptive in the context of the file's actions. This file is used when a preview of a document (doesn't matter what type of document, if the association with the file extension is there in the system) should be shown to the user. This file can throw error if the preview can not be performed. Check this article about related problems : http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/138477-Preview-Handler-Surrogate-Host