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
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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:
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
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-- 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
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