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PowerShell get-process cmdlet

On a Microsoft Windows system, you can obtain a list of all processes that are currently running from a command line interface (CLI) using the Windows PowerShell cmdlet get-process. To see all running processes, obtain a PowerShell prompt and type get-process.

PS C:\> get-process Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M) CPU(s) Id ProcessName ------- ------ ----- ----- ----- ------ -- ----------- 100 9 1472 848 71 14.06 41452 adb 1018385 17 3028 1008 99 5,303.64 101076 AdobeARM 79 7 1200 1336 44 56112 armsvc 127 10 7956 9444 37 101.42 120812 audiodg 9244 279 233224 22368 1019 1916 avp 1334 72 51656 3436 263 1,856.22 11692 avp 427 34 18864 11000 1510 1984 certsrv 321 29 52752 71604 501 3.73 6524 chrome 249 25 44344 9356 290 801.09 7820 chrome <text snipped> 268 20 4876 11112 60 121708 w3wp 227 21 618252 31084 688 5428 wbengine 84 8 892 324 41 656 wininit 181 10 2432 2752 58 684 winlogon 364 44 13596 17920 153 2,894.47 102896 WinSCP 1672 20 9228 18008 81 52428 WmiPrvSE 4884 20 16476 8936 61 3252 WSSBackup PS C:\>

The column values are as follows:

• Handles: The number of process handles that the process opened. A handle is an integer that Windows assigns to processes. For instance, each process thread is typically assigned a handle.
• NPM(K): Non-paged memory the process is using, in kilobytes.
• PM(K): Pageable memory the process is using, in kilobytes.
• WS(K): Process working set, in kilobytes. The value refers to the number of memory pages that the process recently accessed.
• VM(M): Virtual memory the process is using.
• CPU(s): Processor time used on all processors, in seconds.
• Id: Process Identifier (PID).
• ProcessName: The name of the process.

The "CPU(s)" value is the number of seconds the process has utilized the CPU. A higher number for one process than another doesn't mean the process with the higher number is currently using a greater percentage of the CPU time. The number shows accumulated CPU time in seconds. If process x has a higher number than process y, it may only be due to process x running longer than y. E.g., process x could have been running for a week while process y has been running only for 5 minutes. Process y may have a lower number in the "CPU(s)" column, but currently be using a higher percentage of the CPU time.

If you want to display information only for one application, you can use the -Name parameter. E.g., if I only wanted information on Microsoft Excel:

PS C:\> get-process -Name Excel Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M) CPU(s) Id ProcessName ------- ------ ----- ----- ----- ------ -- ----------- 2521 132 274264 137056 1324 4,778.14 9020 EXCEL PS C:\>

If you want to see the location of the executable file associated with the process, e.g., in the case above, if I wanted to see the location of excel.exe, which has process id (PID) 9020, I could add -FileVersionInfo at the end of the command.

PS C:\> get-process -Name Excel -FileVersionInfo ProductVersion FileVersion FileName -------------- ----------- -------- 15.0.4737.1000 15.0.4737.1000 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\Root\Office15\EXCEL.EXE

The command also displays the version of the program that is running, i.e., 15.0.4737.100 in this case, which corresponds to Excel 2013.

To obtain help on the command, type help get-process at a PowerShell prompt:

PS C:\> help get-process NAME Get-Process SYNTAX Get-Process [[-Name] <string[]>] [-ComputerName <string[]>] [-Module] [-FileVersionInfo] [<CommonParameters>] Get-Process -Id <int[]> [-ComputerName <string[]>] [-Module] [-FileVersionInfo] [<CommonParameters>] Get-Process -InputObject <Process[]> [-ComputerName <string[]>] [-Module] [-FileVersionInfo] [<CommonParameters>] ALIASES gps ps REMARKS Get-Help cannot find the Help files for this cmdlet on this computer. It is displaying only partial help. -- To download and install Help files for the module that includes this cmdlet, use Update-Help. -- To view the Help topic for this cmdlet online, type: "Get-Help Get-Process -Online" or go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113324. PS C:\>

Related articles:

1. Using PowerShell to obtain process information
2. Attempting to kill unkillable processes
3. Obtaining a list of running processes and their associated PIDs

References:

1. Documenting CPU Load for Running Processes PowerShell.com
2. PowerShell Get-Process – Managing processes By: Timothy Warner Date: May 1, 2015 4sysops

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Created: Saturday March 5, 2016Last modified: Sunday August 6, 2017 3:36 PM