{"id":4254,"date":"2016-10-03T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T06:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:53:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:53:40","slug":"show-process-id-file-explorer-title-bar-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/show-process-id-file-explorer-title-bar-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Process ID in File Explorer Title Bar in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a hidden registry setting in Windows 10, which when enabled shows the explorer.exe Process ID (PID) in File Explorer title bar, and tells if a folder window is running under the shell process, or as a separate process.<\/p>\n

Show Process ID in File Explorer<\/h2>\n

Start Regedit.exe and go to:<\/p>\n

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer<\/pre>\n
Create a DWORD 32-bit value named ShowPidInTitle<\/strong><\/p>\n
Set the data for ShowPidInTitle to 1<\/p>\n
Exit the Registry Editor. Logoff and login back or do a clean restart of the Explorer shell<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Shell process vs separate process<\/h2>\n
If the folder windows are run under the default Explorer shell, the PID of Explorer shell is displayed \u2013 indicated as “shell process: [PID]”<\/p>\n
\"show<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve enabled Launch folder windows in a separate process<\/strong> option in Folder Options settings, launching folders would create additional explorer.exe instance(s) with a different PID, of course. This also happens if you run explorer.exe [folderpath]<\/strong> directly from Run dialog. In Task Manager the additional instances of explorer.exe appear as shown below, with “\/factory” parameter.<\/p>\n
\"show<\/p>\n
In those cases, the title bar would contain the words “separate process: [PID]”.<\/p>\n
\"show<\/p>\n
Not sure how this feature (in Windows 10 Anniversary Update v1607) would help end-users, but thought I’d write about it anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is a hidden registry setting in Windows 10, which when enabled shows the explorer.exe Process ID (PID) in File Explorer title bar, and tells if a folder window is running under the shell process, or as a separate process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9397,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/desktop-or-folders-not-refreshing-automatically-in-windows\/","url_meta":{"origin":4254,"position":0},"title":"Folders not refreshing automatically in Windows 10","author":"Ramesh","date":"May 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"In File Explorer or on the desktop, when you create, delete, rename, or move a file or folder, the folder view does not refresh automatically to reflect the action. 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