Windows Svchosts Question

Has any one found a good guide that shows how to trim out some of the svchosts.exe entries in taskmgr? I have 5 right now and i know some can't be removed (like the one running DCOM and such)

P.S. - Yes i btw

 

AFAIK You can't touch svchosts. It's incredibly important to the running of Windows.

 

Svchosts itself is just a wrapper AFAIK. there are other proccesses under it that are running (Dll's mostly) that you can see if you do a tasklist /svc under Windows xp pro cmd prompt (doesn't work on xp home unfortunatly)

 

Oh I didnt know about that one! Nice

 

if you want to find out what processes are running under your svchosts in task manager get process explorer by winternals.

 

The process explorer is pretty nice. Unfortunatly it still only shows the process as svchosts and not the actually dll's its running

 

Right click on an svchosts entry, click Properties, then click Threads. There's the dlls.