Full list of Windows processes.

Question

I need a full updated (Windows 11) list of ALL the existing executable Windows processes. Such as:
calc.exe Windows Calculator
notepad.exe Windows Notepad
msgPlus.exe Messenger Plus
msmsgs.exe Windows Live Messenger
winword.exe Microsoft Word

Answer 1

Hi

to see a full list of all running processes, you can do it in a number of ways:

• Open an Admin Command Prompt and type "tasklist". You can also output this to a file by running "tasklist > c:\temp\list.txt"
• From PowerShell, run "Get-Process". Again, you can output this list to a file if needed.
• Open Task Manager and view all running processes there.

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Michael Durkan

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Answer 2

Depending upon how much detail you may need an option is to use Microsoft Systernals: Process Utilities

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

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Answer 3

need a full updated (Windows 11) list of ALL the existing executable Windows processes

Not sure why you need this but one option might be to search the \windows folder for "*.exe", also note winword is not really a windows process but is part of Office.

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