What does the svchost.exe process do?

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On all Windows machines there seem to be a number of svchost.exe processes running. What do this processes do and why are so many running?

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I've written a lengthy explanation of what this process is, and how to figure out what each one of them does. The bottom line is that svchost is a process that contains all of the Windows services. Since there are many Windows services, there are al…

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