Friday, 6 September 2019

windows 7 - Process Explorer: How to find out what System PID 4 is

Using Process Explorer I can see that a certain file is locked by "System, PID: 4". This blocks the VB.NET VS2012 IDE from recreating the file. I am getting the "Permission denied" error. It always takes a few minutes until the file is released.


I have tried to disable just anything that might lock my file... Application compatibility, Backups, Windows Defender, Windows Indexer, just anything I could think of.


How could I find out which application "System, PID: 4" really is?


Thank you.


I know that my question sounds very much like this one: How do I find out any more information about file handles held open by the System process?


But in my case I do not have a network, so that can not be the problem.

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