# Identifying Processes

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/identifying-processes/65243>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [September 24, 2004, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/identifying-processes/65243 "2004-09-24T09:28:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![hsadan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@hsadan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hsadan)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/identifying-processes/65243/1 "2004-09-24T09:28:21Z")

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Is there a way to find out what each process being run is? There are some processes running that I can’t figure out are what.  
In some cases it’s possible to search your hard drive for the image name, but that doesn’t always work :-/  
Also, what’s the difference between being run by \<your username\>, System, Local Service and Network Service?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/identifying-processes/65243/2 "2004-09-24T17:54:13Z")

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[http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml](http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml)

^what i use - very good 🙂

being run by your username means that an action you performed created that task - whether it was a checkbox saying “run at startup” or if you double clicked internet explorer…

here’s a whole bunch of stuff on services from miscrosoft for ya:  
[http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/secmod54.mspx](http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/secmod54.mspx)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/identifying-processes/65243/3 "2004-09-24T21:17:34Z")

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Type the name of the proccess in Google… normally computer sites will come up with what it could be…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/identifying-processes/65243/4 "2004-09-25T00:59:08Z")

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wow sweet thanks a lot for those 2 links 🙂