Six instances of svchost.exe?

I consider myself to be reasonably knowledgeable when it comes to computers, but I have no idea why that would be running 6 times. I mean, 3 instances are SYSTEM, 2 NETWORK SERVICE and 1 LOCAL SERVICE. Why? Why does it do that?

Granted they aren't using much memory but still, why does it do that?

Mine has 6 as well. 4 system, 1 local, and 1 network.

You can open a dos prompt and use "tasklist /svc" to see what executables are being used by the various instances.

This may help to gain a better understanding of just what svchost is and what it does:
What is svchost.exe And Why Is It Running?

Hope this helps...

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Yes, it does help as it links to process explorer, which I've seen a friend use and think "that's a good task manager".

Also it explains the multiple instances too, which is even better, though why they couldn't call them differently depending on the type I don't know.

Thanks

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I had 12! Dang Vista... Thanks for the link, BIG HELP!

these are required processes, unless it says svchosts.exe with an s at the end, dont mess with them.

Originally posted by Cheyracingchick
I had 12! Dang Vista

One more note that history does repeat itself:

Win98 to WinME was a downgrading upgrade
WinXP to WinVista is a downgrading upgrade

too true, vista is the worst thing to happen to operating systems. I'm currently on a....errrrmmm..... 'modded' version of xp. once xp is no longer supported i will be learning linux.

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Can you post a screen shot of what you're seeing?

I don't have any instances of svchost.exe showing in TM, running Vista.

firefox taking up 136k proccesses!? thats absurd, mine only gets to be that much with bout 5 tabs open and browser dling