COM Surrogate (dllhost.exe)

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dllhost.exe is the Windows COM Surrogate process used to host Component Object Model (COM) objects outside of the calling process. It allows potentially unstable or third-party in-process COM components (for example, shell extensions that generate thumbnails or property handlers) to run in a separate process so that crashes or faults do not crash the host application such as File Explorer. You will often see multiple instances of dllhost.exe when Explorer is generating thumbnails or reading file...

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