Services normally don??™t run independently on Windows. A special application named Service Host
(SvcHost.EXE) provides a home for services. Consequently, when you see a SvcHost.EXE on the Processes
tab, you know that it has something to do with a service, but not which service. To see which services
the SvcHost.EXE entry affects, you can right-click the entry and choose Go To Service(s) from the
context menu. Task Manager opens the Services tab with all of the services hosted by that process highlighted.
You can perform the opposite task as well. When you want to see the SvcHost.EXE entry that
hosts a service, right-click the service entry and choose Go To Process from the context menu.
Checking Performance
The Performance tab shown in Figure 1.6 doesn??™t tell you a lot about the system, but it can provide
a quick overview of system health. For example, if all of the processors on a system are sitting at 100
percent all of the time, then you have a problem. Likewise, you can make a quick check of memory
to ensure the server isn??™t running out.
USING THE WINDOWS TASK MANAGER TO YOUR ADVANTAGE 15
Figure 1.5
View, start, and
stop services on the
Services tab.
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