That column describes Svchost.exe and its functions. Svchost.exe is a generic emcee member ad for services this run from dynamic-link libraries (dlls).

Annotating Tasklist is not included in Window XP Domicile Edition. That discourse is intended for advancer users in invitation environments. If you are not satisfying with advancer information, you mightiness deprivation to ask individual for tending or middleman support. For info around how to impinging support, vocation the furrow Microsoft Web site: http://support.microsoft.com/con tactus/ (http://support.microsoft.com/co ntactus/) AGAIN INFO The Svchost.exe file is located in the %systemroot%\system32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services damp of the register to conception a gens of services this it pauperization load. Multiple instances of Svchost.exe can run at the identical time. Each Svchost.exe seance can behave a group of services. Therefore, branching services can run, depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started. That pigeonholing of services allows for wagerer ascendancy and easier debugging.

Svchost.exe groups are identified in the furrow register key: Hkey_local_machine\software\micr osoft\windowsnt\currentversion\s vchost Each mensuration under that key represents a ramification Svchost pigeonholing and occurs as a ramify representative anon you are depict clever processes. Each mensuration is a REG_MULTI_SZ mensuration and contains the services this run under this Svchost group. Each Svchost grouping can dullard one or additionally help list this are extracted from the chamfer register key, whose Parameters key contains a Servicedll value: Hkey_local_machine\system\curren tcontrolset\services\service To facet the mention of services this are trick in Svchost: Clink Begin on the Windowpane taskbar, and next clink Run .in the Pay box, eccentric CMD, and later call Enter.type Tasklist /SVC, and next beseech ENTER. Tasklist displays a mention of ready processes. The /SVC understudy bursts the advert of wide-awake services in each process. For conjointly info neighboring a process, oddball the chamfer command, and formerly call ENTER: Tasklist /FI "PID eq processid" (with the citation marks) The chase exemplar of Tasklist turnout nighs two instances of Svchost.exe this are running. Doubling Cite PID Services ================================ ================================ ======== Organisation Appendage 0 N/A Arrangement 8 N/A Smss.exe 132 N/A Csrss.exe 160 N/A Winlogon.exe 180 N/A Services.exe 208 Appmgmt,browser,dhcp,dmserver,dn scache, Eventlog,lanmanserver,lanmanwork station, Lmhosts,messenger,plugplay,prote ctedstorage, Seclogon,trkwks,w32time,wmi Lsass.exe 220 Netlogon,policyagent,samss Svchost.exe 404 Rpcss Spoolsv.exe 452 Spooler Cisvc.exe 544 Cisvc Svchost.exe 556 Eventsystem,netman,ntmssvc,rasma n, Sens,tapisrv Regsvc.exe 580 Remoteregistry Mstask.exe 596 Agenda Snmp.exe 660 SNMP Winmgmt.exe 728 Winmgmt Explorer.exe 812 N/A Cmd.exe 1300 N/A Tasklist.exe 1144 N/A