Modern Computer Architecture and Organization, by Jim Ledin. Published by Packt Publishing.
Run the appropriate command on your computer to display the currently running processes. What is the PID of the process you are using to run this command?
In Windows, open a command prompt (type command in the Windows Search box to locate the application) and type the tasklist command as follows.
C:\>tasklist
Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage
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System Idle Process 0 Services 0 8 K
System 4 Services 0 9,840 K
Registry 120 Services 0 85,324 K
smss.exe 544 Services 0 640 K
csrss.exe 768 Services 0 4,348 K
wininit.exe 852 Services 0 4,912 K
services.exe 932 Services 0 8,768 K
lsass.exe 324 Services 0 18,160 K
svchost.exe 1044 Services 0 2,308 K
svchost.exe 1068 Services 0 27,364 K
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svchost.exe 12184 Services 0 8,544 K
cmd.exe 16008 Console 3 3,996 K
conhost.exe 21712 Console 3 18,448 K
tasklist.exe 15488 Console 3 10,096 K
The current process is the one running the tasklist.exe application. The process ID (PID) of this process is 15488.