Pro Windows PowerShell

14.1. Working with Processes

All operations related to processes in PowerShell are supported by two cmdlets: Get-Process and Stop-Process. Here is how to verify that by getting all cmdlets that relate to the Process noun:

PS> Get-Command -Noun Process

CommandType     Name                        Definition
-----------     ----                        ----------
Cmdlet          Get-Process                 Get-Process [[-Name] <S...
Cmdlet          Stop-Process                Stop-Process [-Id] <Int...

14.1.1. Listing Processes: Getting the Big Picture

Sometimes, our system becomes unresponsive for no apparent reason. The experienced user usually fires up a task manager instance and starts poking around. Is there a process eating too much CPU time? Do we have a program that has gone wild and has eaten up all available memory on our system and is ...