I wish to see if anything is running because well... I just want to. I know its supposed to be better hidden to keep it away from novices but can someone help locate it for me.

Good luck as I could not find a way of doing that either.

What kind of processes are we talking about? I know I've seen progressbars of some stuff in the past in the ACP.

Just visibility of what tasks were there and what were running for me. Unless I've missed something in IPS4 you can't see the scheduled background tasks.

 

ACP > System > Settings > Advanced Configuration. Click the 'View Tasks' link at the end of the 'Use a cron to run tasks?' setting description. Or use the ACP search with the keyword of 'task'. And yes, it's intentionally difficult to locate to avoid novice mishaps.

Ah ha good call - appreciated!