COM Surrogate is a system process in Windows, known as "dllhost.exe" in Task Manager, that hosts COM objects, acting as a mediator for software components communication. Primarily to prevent crashes ...

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Component Object Model or COM is a medium to enable communication between 2 processes or apps. It allows developers to create objects, a.k.a. COM objects (handles processing images, videos, and other ...

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