I've had problems in the past where I know the process ID an application that was causing problems on my Windows 7 computer but I didn't know how to track down which application name was associated with that process ID.
Here is the method for identifying which application is associated with a process ID in Windows 7.
- Launch the Task Manager on your system by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete and clicking Start Task Manager at the bottom of the list.
- Click the Processes Tab.
- Click View | Select columns ...
- Enable PID and click OK.
- Click on the PID column header to sort the list in order of the process IDs.
- Now you can locate the application name associated with the process IDthat you're looking for.
- Right click on the file associated with the process ID and click Open File Location.
- You know know which file is at issue. Hopefully the folder name clearly identifies which software application installed the file.