Windows Process Tree, Finally Explained! #shorts

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]But, what I do want to point out is look at the hierarchy of processes here. So, this may be something you haven't seen before. See how these things are indented here? That's showing the process hierarchy. So, if you haven't looked and and learn about the how hierarchy works with processes. So, what I mean by that is you always have a parent and you have a child in the process world. And of course, you have, you know, let's make it a family of grandparents and great-grandparent processes as well.

[00:00:30]But, we can see that here with the indention. So, every indention is another layer to that hierarchy. And we can see that a lot of these processes with the lower pids, so the process ID here, are your very typical Windows processes that they get spun up. They're part of that subsystem of when it starts Windows up, it needs all these things to start uh creating the session for the user and all those fun things that we actually need to make Windows work.