Too many processes running?

memory

memory

Member
I have been looking at what processes are running and I noticed that I have 10 processes running for svchost.exe. Why do I have so many running and how do I know which ones are safe to stop? All of them say Host Process for Windows Services.

Also whenever I open up Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, there are 2 processes running for each of them. Is that normal?
 
CrayonMuncher

CrayonMuncher

Active Member
not sure about internet explorer but chrom opens each tab in a separate process

having that many svchost.exe is normal as they are linked to the use of dll files within the windows environment and are used instead of exe and so many are open so if one crashes then it prevents all of the links going down

you can check which svchost file is linked to what service by running cmd and typing

tasklist /SVC

or you can do it from the task manager directly in vista/7
 
memory

memory

Member
On Chrome, if I just have 1 tab open, there are 2 processes running.

On svchost, I knew several running was normal, just didn't realize it was that many. I will check that.
 
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whs

New Member
10 svchost.exes is normal. I just counted 11 on my system. Plus you have a few rundll.exes that do the same thing - host .dlls.
 
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