How can I find the process name if I have the PID (process ID)?

YonathanZ · November 18, 2016

Hi,

I was playing Overwatch just fine and then a new game started and it stuttered a lot, it was unplayable and I had to Alt+F4 out of it.

I found the PID of the process which was using 90% CPU, but not its name. I now look in the Task Manager tab called Services and find nothing with that PID there.

Is there a way to find the process name?

BTW, I found the PID using Event Viewer.

Thanks.

Cryosec · November 18, 2016

open a command prompt, then type

tasklist /fi "pid eq xxxx"

where xxxx is the PID

zMeul · November 18, 2016

26 minutes ago, YonathanZ said:

I found the PID of the process which was using 90% CPU, but not its name. I now look in the Task Manager tab called Services and find nothing with that PID there.

Services only lists Windows' own services and not all active processes

check Details tab for all active processes

YonathanZ · November 18, 2016

Couldn't find it, neither could the CMD command.

I ran MalwareBytes an hour ago and it found lots of files belonging to a single piece of malware, and removed them all. CPU usage has dropped to about 7% on idle; It was around 50% before. I think the issue was fixed. I'll report back if such stutter occurs again.