How many svchost.exe's are normal?
I have about 80 svchost.exe (79 to be exact) processes running in the background. They are connected to local-service, network-service and system. Most of them are in system. Most of them take 1.5K each, while a few take 11-24K, which is not a lot of memory usage, however: Is it normal to have that many svchost.exe processes running in the background? These are loaded on boot.
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Yes.
If you have Windows 10 1709 or higher, each instance represents one active service. I have 73 running on my workstation myself. Process Explorer freeware from Microsoft can be used to identify each service assigned to a svchost.exe instance. .
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