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How To: Find the file location on Task Manager or Process Explorer

Abdul Muhaimin edited this page Jul 13, 2022 · 8 revisions

HOW TO: Find the file location on Task Manager or Process Explorer

Task Manager

First, right-click on the Taskbar and click "Task Manager".

Inside the Task Manager, click the Details tab, right-click on the Name column, and clickSelect columns.



Scroll down until the word Command-line, check it and click the OK button.



You can see the Command line column on Details.




Process Explorer

There is an alternative from Task Manager. It is Process Explorer. It's a third-party of Task Manager.

All you have to do is link this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

First, click "Download Process Explorer (2.5MB)" on the red box.



If you have WinRAR or the 7zip compress app, you are good to go. On the next one.

Second, right-click on the "ProcessExplorer.zip" file and click Extract to ProcessExplorer\ as a folder

There are two Process Explorer apps, if you want a 32-bit version, click procexp. Or if you have a 64-bit version, click procexp64. Before that, right-click the Process Explorer and click Run as Administrator and click Yes. This allows for the administration of this process.

If you want to log on and hide when minimized, open procexp or procexp64 depending on whether you have a 32 or 64-bit version. Click "Options" and click Run At Logon and Hide When Minimized



Unlike Task Manager, there is a command line. Right-click on chrome.exe (for example in this picture), and click Properties...



You can see highlights on the Command line dialog box on the Image tab.



Pro Tip: Press the "Alt + Tab" button while playing a game. If the game had a full-screen mode.