Curiosity usually gets the best of me, and in the realm of computers that’s especially true. Say, for example, when my computer’s running extra slow – I usually open up Task Manager to see what’s up. I hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete, Ctrl+Shift+Esc or right-click on my task bar to start the Task Manager, and in seconds I’m looking at what’s gobbling up my precious processing power.
So, I know what’s eating up my resources, but where’s the culprit hiding, exactly?
Well, in Windows 7 or Vista, that’s pretty easy to find out! Make sure you’re under the Processes tab in Task manager and right-click the Image name in question. Select Open File Location.
If there is indeed a location you can access, an Explorer window will pop up and show you the location of said file!
Neat! That oughta sate my curiosity for awhile!
~Andrew
Tags: Open File Location, task manager
This doesn’t work on XP Pro.
Great Tip!! Now we can know what is using the resources! Thanks
Thanks Andrew.
It has been frustrating whenever my computer became dead slow in responding to my commands. All I could do was to refresh, close pages, or worse, restart my computer. Now I think, I can peep through the process page hole!
What a timely tip! I have been frustrated about what the heck is running on my computer, and I am anxious to check this out. Is there a good way to know whether I should never stop some of the running processes?
Sue
How to you know what can safely be removed?
but how do you know which processess to stop, i have been there several times but do not know which ones to stop
When you open the task manager, how can you tell which program is the one to delete? I wouldn’t know.