Managing Windows processes

There may be times in scripting where you need to check if there is a running process on a system. PowerShell offers the get-process cmdlet to search for available processes on a system. By running the get-process cmdlet alone, you will get a report of all the running services on the system. The default record set that is returned about running services includes:

• Handles: The number of thread handles that are being used by a particular process

• NPM (K): Non-Paged Memory is the memory that is solely in physical memory, and not allocated to the page file that is being used by a process

• PM (K): Pageable Memory is the memory that is being allocated to the page file that is used by a process

• WS(K): Working Set is the memory recently referenced by the process

• VM(M): Virtual Memory is the amount of virtual memory that is being used by a process

• CPU(s): This is the processor time, or the time the CPU takes to utilize the process

• ID: This is an assigned unique ID to the...