![]() The Properties dialog box from Process Explorer: It gives us a wide variety of information regarding selected process. If you feel you need more information,just right click on alg.exe and click on properties. When you over the mouse pointer on alg.exe, it shows you the location of the process and the corresponding Windows Service its related to, its that easy. Since in this example we are focusing on the process ALG.exe, lets see how Process Explorer shows us its details. Once Process Explorer is up and running, it shows you the list of all processes and related applications. Just extract the exe from the zip and run it. It is a standalone program, which means like most other diagnostics programs, you don’t have to install it. The Process Explorer is a handy little utility from SysInternals, which was bought by Microsoft, some time back. So in XP we are going to use the SysInternals Process Explorer. As you can see in the image above, when you right click on any process listed, it doesn’t provide us an option to locate the file. Locating a Process in Windows XP:Īs I mentioned before, the Task manager in Windows XP isn’t good enough to drill down a processes’ location. Windows 7 is in Beta right now, but I am sure, the operation would be very similar to that of Windows Vista. Lets discuss how we can locate any process in both Windows XP and Vista. ![]() Compared to the Task Manager in Vista, which has seen a lot of improvements, the Task Manager in Windows XP doesn’t help much in locating a process location. Also, many computer viruses and spyware, make use of these process names to blend-in and thus go unnoticed even if you are familiar with usage of the Windows Task Manager. Since the processes listed are vital to the smooth working of the computer, its a good idea to know how to track, where each process is located. If you are a Windows user, you must be familiar with the most popular shortcut Key of them all – Ctrl + Alt + Del – which opens up the Task manager and shows you details of what’s actually going on under the hood,which application is hogging all the memory and which unneeded processes are running in the background. In case of the Windows Operating System, the underlying processes and services are the basis of its smooth operation.
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