Windows XP services

[aliaskary77]

Hi,

I know in the task list, services.exe are faily normal. However, I cannot tell what each instance of services.exe does.

Is there a tool that tells you? I have one services.exe that runs 25 to 35 mb. Curious to see what it is.

Thanks.

[chevyrulz099]

www.google.com (http://www.google)

you will find MUCH more than you want to read.

there are sites where you can type the service in them, and itll pop up the spcs of that service.

[aliaskary77]

oops...i just realised......i meant to ask about the multiple instances or "svchost.exe" on task manager, and not services.exe.

I am curious to find out what each one is actually running. I am sure my pc is clean, but i know some virii could pose as svchost.exe...or a corrupt or bad serice could make its svchost.exe instance use more memory then needed.

[chevyrulz099]

i currently have 6 svchost running. one is local service, 2 are network service, and three are system.

its just operating system stuff. id worry if you had like 20 of these running, but not 6-8