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How do I find the location of an executable in Windows?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 2026576075 views
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Problem

I remembered that I used a tool called as to find locations for any executable programs like this in a console: Now I cannot find this tool. Not sure if Windows has a build-in tool to do that search?

Error Output

C:\Tmp\Where myTool.exe
 C:\Program Files\MyApp\myTools.exe
 ....

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Fix for: How do I find the location of an executable in Windows?

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According to the Stack Overflow answer at Is there an equivalent of 'which' on windows?, does this on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 and later: Example Output: In PowerShell use , (or its abbreviation ), as is the default alias for .

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