What is the "taskhost.exe" ? Variant 661253

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. 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:: 6.1.7600.16384
MD5:: 88ff9d6fcbd4ad3c006a7b582501eedd
SHA1:: a0d0289b8808246a6bc0f28c78abf2edae36cd51
SHA256:: 43422014e7f4dd1fa6c58cd576234dc3aab1ab13d4d708bd0ce6da24205b0245
Size:: 69120
Directory:: C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:: Windows 7
Occurence:: Low

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :

Antivirus Name	Latest Toleration
ESET Smart Security 5.2	2015-07-26 06:48:10
ESET Smart Security 6.0	2014-10-28 16:30:30
COMODO Antivirus	2013-05-07 15:19:31
McAfee Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware	2012-12-09 20:14:46

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SAFErating from user Stan for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe
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SAFErating from user System for file C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe
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