From the course: Windows 10 for IT Support: Advanced Troubleshooting
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Using PowerShell to track resource usage - Windows Tutorial
From the course: Windows 10 for IT Support: Advanced Troubleshooting
Using PowerShell to track resource usage
- [Instructor] Just as you can use the Task Manager and the Resource Monitor to find out what system resources each process is consuming, you can also get that information through PowerShell. So let's take a look at how this works. I'm going to begin by clicking on the Start button, and then I'm going to go to the W section, I'll go to Windows PowerShell, and then I'm going to right-click on Windows PowerShell, and go to More, and Run as administrator, and that's going to open an elevated PowerShell session. I'll click Yes, and here we are in PowerShell. Now if you just want to get information about your system processes, you can do that by typing the Get-Process cmdlet. I'll go ahead and do that so that you can see what it looks like. And what you get is a list of every process that's running on the machine and the resources that that process is using. So you can see the Handles, and then you see information about the…
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