What is the "taskhost.exe" ? Variant 500733

Our database contains 841 different files for filename taskhost.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the taskhost.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name taskhost.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Host Process for Windows Tasks. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 2 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process taskhost.exe.

Product:: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:: Microsoft Corporation
Description:: Host Process for Windows Tasks
Version:: 6.1.7600.16385
MD5:: 3eefb971d61ef9638fd21f14c703ca11
SHA1:: 1618ff452b08e4a994fb5327d11833a39951c7df
SHA256:: a01bcd7e884e407c82deb84d5b31f517f32a4fa2cf143372bac896cc9478be0e
Size:: 69120
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows 7
Occurence:: High

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This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
Kaspersky Free	2016-09-07 22:13:21
Avira Antivirus	2016-09-07 16:44:57
Kaspersky Internet Security	2016-09-07 14:52:07
Avast Antivirus	2016-09-07 09:05:45
avast! Antivirus	2016-09-07 07:58:21
Baidu Antivirus	2016-09-06 21:40:47
Microsoft Security Essentials	2016-09-06 20:48:04
Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 for Windows	2016-09-06 14:33:19
AVG Internet Security	2016-09-05 19:05:09
G DATA INTERNET SECURITY	2016-09-05 17:45:29

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SAFErating from user kajmik (Variant: 500733)
"taskhost.exe" file is a Task Host which is a generic Host Process for Windows Services. Windows uses taskhost.exe as the host for all DLL based services that are run.
SAFErating from user Don for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe

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SAFErating from user MikeOne for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe (Variant: 27913205)
TASKHOST is a generic process which acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs rather than EXEs - it is called a Host Process for Windows Tasks. 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. There can be many instances of TASKHOST running, as there will be one instance of TASKHOST for every DLL-based service or grouping of services (the grouping of services is determined by the programmers who wrote the services).
SAFErating from user rots for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe