Powershell process monitor download#

Pre-requisite: Visit Microsoft’s site and download the correct version of PowerShell for your operating system. Please keep in mind that you always learn more when things go wrong! I don’t often employ the strategy of teaching by failures, but in the case of Stop-Process, I am going to make an exception.

Example 1: Failures – How NOT to Script Stop-Process One method of matching the names is to right-click the program in Task Manager’s Application tab, then select Go to Process. Notepad is easy, its process is Notepad! However, ‘Word for Windows’ is winword. Next click on the Processes tab, if you click on ‘Image Name’, then you can sort the processes into alphabetical order.Īnother advantage of viewing the processes in Task Manager is so that we can double-check the names. The flashiest way to fire up the taskmgr is to press Ctrl +Shift +Esc. Thus in the case of Get-Process and Stop-Process, I like to check the Image Names in Task Manager. To help understand and to help troubleshooting, I thoroughly recommend the general principle of opening the GUI associated with the PowerShell object. If you examine each of the three methods and their associated learning points then you will gain extra insights into how PowerShell operates. I will show you three techniques to achieve the same goal of killing a process. PowerShell either uses the verb ‘Stop’, or else the verb. Our mission is to kill, zap, or close a named process that you see in Task Manager.

Example 4: PowerShell Kills the Process!.

Example 2: Eureka, Stop-Process Working.

Interestingly, Windows refers to this as ‘Killing’ the process, whereas PowerShell seeks consistency by always using ‘Stop’ and never ‘Kill’, ‘terminate’ or anything but ‘Stop’.

The idea is that once you have found, or ‘got’ a process, then you can zap it. This page builds on the Get-Process command featured on the previous page. Introduction to PowerShell’s Stop-Process

Powershell process monitor