PowerShell

Processes Commands

Manage Windows processes with PowerShell. Learn to list, start, stop, and monitor running processes.

8 commands

Pro Tips

Use 'Get-Process | Sort-Object CPU -Descending | Select-Object -First 10' for top CPU consumers.

$ Get-Process

List all running processes.

$ Stop-Process -Name notepad

Stop process by name.

$ Stop-Process -Id 1234

Stop process by PID.

$ Start-Process notepad

Start a new process.

$ Start-Process powershell -Verb RunAs

Start process with elevation.

$ Get-Process | Sort-Object CPU -Descending | Select-Object -First 10

Show top CPU-consuming processes.

$ Get-Process | Sort-Object WorkingSet -Descending | Select-Object -First 10

Show top memory-consuming processes.

$ Wait-Process -Name notepad

Wait for process to exit.