Get-Process cmdlet in PowerShell

In this article I’ll explain some cmdlets around how to get all active processes running on your computer and start/stop process using PowerShell.

Get-Process

You can get all active and running processes on your computer using below command.

Get-Process | more

You can specify names or ID of processes you want to get information about.

Get-Process -Name Chrome, explorer, powershell

Get-Process -Id 200,1692,7368,6988

You can use wildcard characters to search processes.

Get-Process -Name w*

You can specify local or remote computer name to get processes running on local or remote computer.

Get-Process -ComputerName Mitesh-PC -Name chrome,powershell

You can also use below command to check count of how many processes of single process is running using below command. You can use Group-Object cmdlets to group on property. Before you use group you need to sort data using Sort-Object cmdlet.

Get-Process | Sort-Object Name | Group-Object -Property Name

You can send result to output text file using Out-file cmdlets.

Get-Process | Sort-Object Name | Group-Object -Property Name | Select count, name | Out-File -FilePath C:\PowerShell\Processes.txt

Get-ChildItem process*.txt

You can find a specific process running on computer using where object and you can stop that processes same time via below cmdlets. In below example, I search for processes using CPU more than 50 and name starts with ‘A’ and stop all the processes matching this condition.

Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.CPU -ge 50 -and $_.Name -like 'A*'} | Stop-Process -PassThru

Start-Process

You can start process on your local computer using Start-Process cmdlets.

Start-Process notepad 

You can also specify additional parameters along with start-process.

Start-Process notepad -WindowStyle Maximized

Stop-Process

You can stop any running processes using stop-process cmdlets.

Stop-Process -Name notepad

Stop-Process -ID 9964

Wait-Process

This cmdlets wait for process to be stopped. If you execute this cmdlets for specific process, PowerShell prompt will waits until give process stopped manually.

Debug-Process

This cmdlets debug one or more processes running on local computer. This cmdlets attaches the debugger to running process.

Get-Process powershell

Debug-Process powershell

I hope you have some knowledge about how to get processes and perform some actions around it using various PowerShell cmdlets.

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Reference –

MSDN

See Also –

Introduction to Windows PowerShell

Working with File and Folders using PowerShell

Advanced Files and Folders techniques with PowerShell