Why is conhost.exe being launched?
.net, java, process
Solution
In earlier versions of Windows, console windows were hosted in CSRSS, which is a highly privileged, trusted, system critical process. On Win7, it appears that console windows are now hosted in conhost.exe, which has less rights. This was probably done for security & reliability reasons - a security issue in the console system won't compromise the entire box, and a crash in the console code won't blue screen the system.
Problem
I'm launching a Java process ("java.exe") from .Net. using Process.Start(). In addition to the Java process, another process called conhost.exe is launched somehow. I am redirecting the output from the Java process to the .Net process. - Why is conhost.exe even launched? - How do I track it from .Net? I want to track this specific instance, and since I'm not creating it directly (but rather the Java.exe process), I don't have it's PID.