Chapter 14. Processes and Services

This chapter covers the management of process and covers the administration of Windows services (also known as Windows NT services). Examples in the chapter include the enumeration of process and services, starting and stopping process and services, installation of services, and changing service configuration.

Processes

The commandlet Get-Process (alias ps or gps) has already been used quite often in this book. This chapter discusses Get-Process in more depth and examines complementary commandlets.

Enumerating Processes

You get a list of all processes with the following:

Get-Process

Get-Process gets instances of the .NET classes System.Diagnostics.Process.

If the list ...

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