The taskhost.exe application consumes 50-60% of the average cpu usage

Anonymous
2010-02-10T09:05:52+00:00

The taskhost.exe application(C:\Windows\System 32) consumes 50-60% of the average cpu usage even when the system is idle  and no processes are being run.

Will deleting this application make my computer unstable?

How can  i permanently stop the process ?

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Anonymous
2010-02-11T04:26:39+00:00

Hey Abhishek,

The taskhost.exe is a Task Host which is a generic Host Process for Windows 7 32-bit Services. The full path to this file should be shown in TUT as **C:\Windows\System32\Taskhost.exe.**TASKHOST is a generic process which acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs rather than EXEs. At startup TASKHOST checks the Services portion of the Registry to construct a list of DLL-based services that it needs to load, and then loads them. There can be many instances of TASKHOST running, as there will be one instance of TASKHOST for every DLL-based service or grouping of services (the grouping of services is determined by the programmers who wrote the services in question).

Since this is an integral part of the operating system, I wouldn’t suggest you to delete it.

However, for the high CPU consumption issue, please use Performance Monitor to view performance data either in real time or from a log file.

The new Resource Monitor lets you view detailed real-time information about hardware resources (CPU, disk, network, and memory) and system resources (including handles and modules) in use by the operating system, services, and running applications. In addition, you can use Resource Monitor to stop processes, start and stop services, analyze process deadlocks, view thread wait chains, and identify processes locking files.

A closer look:

View CPU utilization and other performance information**http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/View-CPU-utilization-and-other-performance-information**

See details about your computer's performance using Task Manager**http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/See-details-about-your-computers-performance-using-Task-Manager**

Last but not the least, perform virus scan to remove any trace of infection on your computer. If your antivirus database is not updated, please update the same and then run the scan. If you don't have antivirus installed, you may opt to download Microsoft Security Essentials on your computer and run it.

**http://www.microsoft.com/Security\_Essentials/**

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Shinmila H - Microsoft Support

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-06-14T00:02:04+00:00

    hello Shinmila, i have this problem similar to them. that every time i shut down my pc. (Waiting for the....) i always encountered this "Task Host Window" . its annoying. can you help me fix it?or just to remove it..  and also i did not change any settings of my pc . it just appear when i shut it down. thnx. you can also email me in my yahoo for fast response. heres my email add.    ******@yahoo.com

    thank you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-11-15T13:16:07+00:00

    Issue appears to be the same after deleting contents of folder as per above. also contents have not been recreated.. at least not yet....

    Comments?

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-15T13:07:29+00:00

    Sorry.. posted incorrectly. trying solution as noted above by Bitcrazed and will report back if problem continues.

    Thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-11-15T12:55:50+00:00

    Seems to work for me but only until I reboot. Once I do that even with the RAC disabled the taskhost returns to it's original high cpu usage.

    The only solution I have found is to suspend taskhost.exe and I have no idea what that might cause to happen. but so far nothing unusual is occurring that I can tell and the cpu usage is back to normal. Of course I need to do this each time I reboot.

    why is MS not addressing this issue. There seems to be a lot of people reporting it?

    thanks

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