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Summary: Tasklist.exe is a utility to examine your system's running programs. It's not on every version of Windows but a more powerful alternative is available. What is Tasklist.exe, and why don't I have it? In several articles here I talk about using a tool called tasklist to determine which services are being provided by the various instances of svchost. As it turns out that advice is very confusing for some since they don't actually have tasklist. Users with Windows XP Home for one since tasklist.exe is provided only with Windows XP Pro and (I assume) Windows 2003 server. Fortunately there's an alternative, and it involves one of my favorite tools. • SysInternals makes a free tool called Process Explorer or "procexp". I've referenced it in various articles here because it's a great tool for viewing everything from what processes are running on your machine, to what process is holding a file open. It turns out that it's great for determining which services an instance of a process is providing. Here's a portion of procexp's display on my machine:
You'll note that there are at least two instances of SVCHOST.EXE running. If we double click on one we get the following:
Note the tab labeled "Services" at the top. If we click on that we'll get something like this:
This instance of SVCHOST happens to be providing 30 separate services to the operating system, from "AudioSrv", aka "Windows Audio", on down. The information is actually a more detailed than tasklist would provide since it includes the full text name of each service, as well as the descriptive help information for each found at the bottom of the display. Process Explorer is free and runs on all Windows platforms. The services information we're discussing here only applies to Windows NT based versions which include Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. • Recent Comments
SysInternals is a great company. I use their process explorer instead of XP's built in taskman. Hi everybody, But i need to use it in batch file. Are there any alternatives for tasklist on 2000? Posted by: Anand at July 10, 2006 04:01 AMhi, regards, Pranav Posted by: Pranav Vora at September 5, 2006 06:49 AMProcess Explorer now can be found at http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html Posted by: HJr at September 16, 2006 10:34 AMIf you have a box with XP pro, you can look in the C:\windows\system32 folder for the program tasklist.exe. From there, it's only a matter of copying it to the C:\windows\system32 drive on your other computer. Know this works with home, not sure about older versions. A.K.A. 2000. Posted by: Steve at February 16, 2007 07:15 PMUnder Win2000 the file is called tlist.exe and is not loaded by default. I just loaded it on my Win2000 computer from by Win 2000 Professional CDROM. Mount the CDROM and extract it from the support.cab file under Support\tools. Put it in C:\windows\system32. Under START, RUN do tlist /? for options. Hope this helps. Posted by: BSmith at February 21, 2007 01:27 PMHi all , Is there any way to know what processes are running on a remote pc in a a LAN, including what files have been opened and what sites have been opened. I want to do this using command prompt only, using commands like tlist, tasklist, process, etc Posted by: gc at April 4, 2007 11:52 PMYou still havent stated how to get rid of the error! it's really annoying how i have to turn on my pc to this error and have no sound. Posted by: Adam at July 13, 2007 02:13 AMProcess Explorer now can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 23, 2008 06:42 AMPost a comment on "What is Tasklist.exe, and why don't I have it?":
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