Svchost Viewer Shows Exactly What Each svchost.exe Instance is Doing

One of the most popular articles on this site over the last year has been our must-read feature explaining svchost.exe and why it's running, and now there's an even easier way to see what's going on behind all of those svchost processes in Task Manager.

The Svchost Viewer is a small application that lists all of the current svchost.exe instances, shows how much memory each one is using and what services are running beneath it. For the uninitiated, svchost.exe is an underlying Windows component responsible for Windows services