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PowerShell Get running processes and its command line path

How to get running processes with PowerShell using WMI and display its path.

PowerShell below will display the path and also the command line of the process on how the process was executed.

The code below will also display the process-id, the process-id or PID can also be supplied to an application called handle64 from SysInternal tools. This tool is quite cool since it will display more info about the PID supplied to handle application.

Download link for handle64: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/handle


Example output of handle64:

Skype.exe pid: 42360 DESKTOP-Name\iuser-xname

   40: File          C:\Windows

   84: File          C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Skype for Desktop

  24C: File          C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b23cb64144ccf1df_6.0.19041.1_none_fd031af4F787f5b0106f2

  380: File          C:\Windows\System32\en-US\mswsock.dll.mui

  3A0: File          C:\Users\iuser-~1\AppData\Local\Temp\skype-preview Crashes\operation_log.txt

  3C4: File          C:\Users\iuser-~1\AppData\Local\Temp\skype-preview Crashes\CrashpadMetrics-active.pma

  3D0: Section       \Windows\Theme2059671484

  3D4: Section       \Sessions\1\Windows\Theme3966775245c43435

PowerShell code to display processes:

Get-WmiObject -Query “SELECT * FROM Win32_Process” | Ft  ExecutablePath, ProcessId, CommandLine -wrap 

Sample output:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe  

697072 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"     

--type=renderer --field-trial-handle=10572,1079634

77934539454521501883579,116308618535245426994419,131530072      

--lang=en-US --enable-auto-reload               

--device-scale-factor=1.25                      

--num-raster-threads=4                          

--enable-main-frame-before-activation           

--renderer-client-id=204                        

--no-v8-untrusted-code-mitigations              

--mojo-platform-channel-handle=697072 /prefetch:1  


That's it if need to troubleshoot or just need to peek around the running processes or application, above code will be able to do such task. Or if there is a need to check how the command line was launched, the PowerShell command line output displays on how the application was launch via command line.


To stop or terminate running processes via command line check out this link: https://quickbytesstuff.blogspot.com/2016/01/windows-get-running-processes.html


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