View running windows processes

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This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. In both cases, the applications currently open and running on the computer are displayed. From here, you can end any application that is not responding by selecting it in the list and clicking the End Task button. The Processes tab displays applications that are running, and Windows system processes.

You can identify what processes are consuming your resources by clicking the "CPU" or "Memory" titled "Mem Usage" in Windows 7 and earlier column headers.

Doing so sorts the process list by how much of that resource they are using. Before going any further, below are the necessary prerequisites to follow along with the examples in this article. Get-Process manages local processes. In this first example, you are using the PowerShell Get-Process cmdlet. This command displays all running processes. To display real-time process information Windows offers Windows Task Manager and Linux offers the top command.

To get started, open up your PowerShell console and run Get-Process. Notice, that Get-Process returns the running process information, as shown below. The output format is identical for the Windows and Linux operating systems. By default, the gps or ps exist as command aliases for Get-Process.

As PowerShell 7 is cross-platform, the ps command conflicts with a built-in Linux command. Therefore ps will not work on Linux, only the gps alias. The meaning of Get-Process output may not be immediately obvious. The default Get-Process properties are described in more detail below. Below is another great example. Run the following code in your PowerShell session when the Brave browser is running.

Thank you to Jay Adams over at SystemFrontier! Congratulations, you can now view all the running processes on both Windows and Linux using Get-Process!

Get-Process returns many different properties on running processes as you have seen earlier. Like with all other PowerShell objects, you can selectively pick out properties on objects.

With a PowerShell console open, run Get-Process using the Name parameter to only show all running processes with Calculator as the name. Get-Process returns many properties as expected.