Get-ChildItem (alias: dir) in Powershell is used to get the items inside the container. This container could be the Folders, Registry or the certificate store. You can retrieve items from one or more specified locations. This command works similar to the dir in command prompt but PowerShell provides a modern ... Read More

After killing the process using Stop-Process command in PowerShell, you can determine if the process is really terminated from the system with HasExited function.For example, we will kill Notepad process and check if Notepad process still exists in the system?$notepad = Get-Process notepad | Stop-Process if($notepad.HasExited){"Process is terminated"} else{"Process is ... Read More

With the Passthru parameter, PowerShell returns the output in the console. For example, below notepad.exe process with ID 12344 will be stopped and the same will be displayed in the console with the Passthru parameter. Earlier it was not the case with only Stop-Process.PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Stop-Process -Id 12344 -PassThru     Handles  NPM(K)   ... Read More

To get the consent from the user before stopping process or instance, -confirm parameter is used.ExampleIn the below example, we will stop notepad.exe process with –Id 4900 using –Confirm parameter.PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Stop-Process -Id 4900 -Confirm Confirm Are you sure you want to perform this action? Performing the operation "Stop-Process" on target ... Read More

To stop the specific instance of the process, Process ID needs to provide to Stop-Process cmdlet.ExampleIn the below example, we need to stop Notepad process with instance ID 25400.OutputHandles  NPM(K)    PM(K)      WS(K)     CPU(s)     Id  SI ProcessName -------  ------    -----      ----- ... Read More

To stop running all the instances of the process in PowerShell Stop-Process command is used. For example, in the below example, we have two running instances of notepad.exe process.CommandPS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-Process notepadOutputPS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-Process notepad Handles  NPM(K)    PM(K)      WS(K)     CPU(s)     Id  SI ProcessName -------  ------ ... Read More

To get the output in gridview format in PowerShell, you need to Pipeline the Out-GridView variable so the output will be in GUI format.CommandGet-Process | Sort-Object CPU -Descending | Select -First 10 | Out-GridView -Title "Top 10 CPU usage processes"

To display only the first 5 processes you need to use –First parameter in the Select-Object pipeline statement. You can use multiple filter statements and later at last pipeline the –First command to display only a few results.CommandGet-Process | Select -First 5OutputHandles  NPM(K)    PM(K)      WS(K)     ... Read More

Get-Process shows the default properties only. To get all the properties of Get-Process, we need to pipeline Format-List * (fl *).Get-Process | Format-List *OutputName                       : AcroRd32 Id                         ... Read More

You can group the processes based on their properties. Here, we will group the processes based on their name, it would display how many instances of the process is running. Group-Object command is useful for it.CommandThe below command will group the object and sort the object based on their thread ... Read More