#55 : Process Handling with Powershell

You can get list of running Processes with command like Get-Process. 

Below command be used to get Names of all processes running - 

CODE: 
 #==[ Get List of Processes Running ]==# Get-Process | Format-Table ProcessName

Stop a Process if the process is running :

I am not sure why somebody would need this. But anyways, just for learning - you can use below -

Below statement would stop each occurence of Notepad running.

CODE:
 #==[ Find if Notepad is running, if running - Stop it! ]==# Get-Process | Where {$_.ProcessName -eq "Notepad"} | Stop-process

Find the Process which is using maximum CPU :

Yeah, this might be a good example.

CODE:
 #==[ Find the Process Name with Maximum CPU ]==# Get-Process | Sort-Object "CPU" | Select-Object -Last 1

Find the Process which is using minumum CPU :

Below code is just one word different from above. Select-Object -First 1.

CODE:
#==[ Find the Process Name with Maximum CPU ]==# Get-Process | Sort-Object "CPU" | Select-Object -First 1

Find the Process with more than one Occurences : 

CODE:
#==[ Find the Process with more than one occurence ]==# Get-Process | Group-Object ProcessName | Where-Object { $_.Count -gt 1 }