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<\/p>\nPowerShell is a powerful tool for managing processes on a local or remote computer. You can retrieve a list of running processes with PowerShell, suspend a hung process, find a process by a windows title, run a new process in hidden or interactive mode, and so forth.<\/p>\n
In Windows 10, you can see a list of possible process management cmdlets as follows:<\/p>\n
Get-Command \u2013Noun Process<\/p>\n
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The Get-Process cmdlet displays a list of processes running on a local computer<\/p>\n
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To list all properties of multiple processes:<\/strong><\/p>\n Get-Process cmd,excel,notep* | Format-List *<\/p>\n You can display the specific process properties only, for example, a name (ProcessName), a start time (StartTime), a process window title (MainWindowTitle), an executable file name (Path) and a developer name (Company):<\/p>\n Get-Process winword, notep* | Select-Object ProcessName, StartTime, MainWindowTitle, Path, Company|ft<\/p>\n To show a list of currently running user processes in a graphical user interface (background and system processes will not be shown):<\/p>\n Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.mainWindowTitle} | Format-Table Id, Name, mainWindowtitle<\/p>\n Using the\u00a0IncludeUserName<\/strong>\u00a0option, you can display a user name (owner) who has started the process:<\/p>\n Get-Process -Name winword\u2013IncludeUserName<\/p>\n You can use Where-Object to choose processes based on certain criteria. For example, let’s show all programs that use more than 300 MB of RAM, arrange them by memory usage in descending order, and display the memory amount in MB rather than KB:<\/p>\n Get-Process| where-object {$_.WorkingSet -GT 300000*1024}|select processname,@{l=”Used RAM(MB)”; e={$_.workingset \/ 1mb}} |sort “Used RAM(MB)” \u2013Descending<\/p>\n As previously stated, the CPU parameter of the Get-Process cmdlet contains the processor time consumed by the specific process in seconds. Use this function to see the proportion of CPU consumed by programmes (similar to Task Manager):<\/p>\n function Get-CPUUsagePercent To find hung processes (which are not responding), run the following command:<\/p>\n Get-Process | where-object {$_.Responding -eq $false}<\/p>\n To start a new process using PowerShell, this command is used:<\/p>\n Start-Process -FilePath notepad<\/p>\n If there is no executable file in the\u00a0$env:path\u00a0environment variable, specify the full path to the file:<\/p>\n Start-Process -FilePath ‘C:\\distr\\app.exe’<\/p>\n You can run a program and pass arguments to it:<\/p>\n Start-Process -FilePath ping -ArgumentList “-n 10 10.1.56.21”<\/p>\n You can change the process window’s start mode with the WindowStyle parameter (normal, minimized, maximized, hidden). Execute this command, for example, to run a programme in a maximised window and wait for it to finish:<\/p>\n Start-Process -FilePathtracert -ArgumentList “10.1.56.21” \u2013wait -windowstyle Maximized<\/p>\n Using Stop-Process cmdlet, you can stop any process. For instance, to close all running notepad processes:<\/p>\n Stop-Process -Name notepad<\/p>\n You are not requested to confirm stopping a process by default. All procedures that meet the requirements will be halted. Add the \u2013Confirm option to be able to confirm halting processes:<\/p>\n Stop-Process -Name notepad.exe \u2013Confirm<\/p>\n Also, you can kill a process as follows:<\/p>\n (Get-Process -Name cmd).Kill()<\/p>\n From PowerShell, you can force stop all apps that are not responding to Windows Process Manager:<\/p>\n Get-Process | where-object {$_.Responding -eq $false}| Stop-Process<\/p>\n Using PowerShell, you can automatically restart a hung or closed process.<\/p>\n You can use the\u00a0ComputerName\u00a0option of the Get-Process cmdlet in order to manage processes on remote computers (WinRM must be enabled and configured).<\/p>\n Get-Process -ComputerName srv01, srv02, srv03| Format-Table -Property ProcessName, ID, MachineName<\/p>\n We deal with the built-in Get-Process features to manage processes on remote computers. PowerShell Remoting features available in\u00a0Invoke-Command\u00a0and\u00a0Enter-PSSession\u00a0cmdlets are not covered here.<\/p>\n Note that the Stop-Process cmdlet does not have the \u2013ComputerName parameter if you wish to stop a process on a remote computer. You can use the following PowerShell code to stop a process on a remote computer:<\/p>\n $RemoteProcess = Get-Process -Name cmd -ComputerName srv01 At Velan<\/strong>, our server support engineers can manage your server.\u00a0If you are interested in our service, please fill the Quick connect form to get in touch with us<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Get-Process](\"https:\/\/www.velaninfo.com\/rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Untitled-3.png\")
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\n{
\n$CPUPercent = @{
\nName = ‘CPUPercent’
\nExpression = {
\n$TotalSec = (New-TimeSpan -Start $_.StartTime).TotalSeconds
\n[Math]::Round( ($_.CPU * 100 \/ $TotalSec), 2)
\n}
\n}
\nGet-Process | Select-Object -Property Name, $CPUPercent, Description | Sort-Object -Property CPUPercent -Descending | Select-Object -First 20
\n}
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<\/p>\nStart-Process, Stop-Process: How to Start or Stop Processes with PowerShell<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nUsing PowerShell to Manage Processes on a Remote Computer<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nStop-Process -InputObject $RemoteProcess<\/p>\n
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