What is SVCHost.exe – which one does what?

One dayI might actually sit down for more than ten minutes with planetdan. If it’s 2014 and this post is still top of the page, then erm – I told you so.

I have a habit of opening lots of interesting/promising links in a new tab and then a little later I can’t remember where I found the link. Pretty sure I found this one through the excellent stackoverflow.com (or it’s twin serverfault.com): Killing the right svchost.exe process