svchost is a process handler of windows (active from win 2000 and up) it´s handling all direct link libraries which are neccessary to run certain services. You just can show which dll´s are loaded if you are loading the command line interpreter of windows (dos window) and type tasklist /svc . This will show you all connected dlls. Just bringing it to the point: you can kill the dll if you don´t need it but as soon as you will start the application which will need a dll svchost will start it aga…