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Title: Should I have several instances of svchost running in vista?
Post by: Nerf on July 02, 2008, 09:43:02 PM
Is this normal?  Looking through the task manager I have 14(FOURTEEN!!) svchost.exe's running, wtf?


Title: Re: Should I have several instances of svchost running in vista?
Post by: fuser on July 02, 2008, 09:52:20 PM
Yep its totally normal. A svchost.exe is spawned for services on windows (some times some are bundled into one.. others spawn their own)

If you want grab process explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) to take a look at what each svchost.exe is being used by (hover over the svchost.exe or double click and go to the "services" tab).