Control processes with PowerShell

Processes can be manipulated by referring to their Process ID (PID).

Get all running processes (including PIDs):

PS C:\> Get-Process

To stop a certain process use its PID:

PS C:\> Stop-Process <PID>

The process is quit immediately and the PID is released for new processes.

To change the priority of a process for APPLICATION.EXE (edit!) to XXX run:

PS C:\> Get-WmiObject Win32_process-filter 'name="APPLICATION.EXE"'|ForEach-Object {$_.SetPriority(XXX)}

where XXX ist set to

64	low
16384	less than normal
32	normal
32768	more than normal
128	high
256	real-time

To get more info about a process:

PS C:\> Get-Process PROCESS_NAME | Format-List *

like the priority, the process executable path or version

To see the user rights of a running process (requires admin console), run

PS C:\> Get-Process PROCESS_NAME -Include-UserName