Svchost Viewer is an open source application developed on codexplex.com. When opened it will list every single dynamic link library that svchost.exe is hosting. Along with the name of each service, it will also give you the following details:
Data activity (amount read/written)Start mode (Does it automatically start with Windows?)Detailed but brief description
If you ask me, the best part of the app is that it is able to tell you what each process is used for based upon what each description says.
Though it isn’t the best way to go about it, as a bonus you can use Svchost Viewer to stop services dead in their tracks. When doing this a warning will display letting you know that the service might just restart when you reboot Windows and you should really disable it the proper way via services.msc.
Conclusion
Svchost Viewer is a simple and straight forward application to aid in the understanding of svchost.exe’ many tasks. It is open-source and free, so if you are curious to figure out what each and every service is, this is a groovy download work taking for a spin. Comment
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