Windows Task Manager shows the list of processes currently running in the System. Not only the processes, it also displays the list of Services that are registered in the Windows Operating System.
We can display the list of processes & services from the command prompt also, and especially these are helpful when we are writing the scripts to manage the processes and services.
Windows Operating System provides the TASKLIST.EXE tool to list the processes & services from the command prompt.
We do have several tools, to display the list of processes & services currently running from the command prompt. In this article, I would like to explain TASKLIST.EXE.
From the command prompt, run TASKLIST.EXE; to display the list of processes or services currently running in the System.
Type the tasklist at the command prompt & it displays the list of processes currently running. The output looks like the below:
C:\>tasklist Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage ========================= ======== ================ =========== ============ System Idle Process 0 Services 0 24 K System 4 Services 0 4,336 K smss.exe 468 Services 0 1,328 K ... ... cmd.exe 10404 Console 1 3,868 K taskmgr.exe 3604 Console 1 12,048 K taskeng.exe 7424 Console 1 6,788 K tasklist.exe 11000 Console 1 6,464 K C:\>
We can even display the list of services currently running. By using the “/SVC” switch at the command prompt, we can display the list of services associated with the processes. Type “tasklist /svc” at the command prompt. The output looks like the below:
C:\>tasklist /svc
Image Name PID Services
========================= ======== ============================================
System Idle Process 0 N/A
System 4 N/A
smss.exe 468 N/A
...
lsass.exe 964 KeyIso, Netlogon, SamSs
svchost.exe 1076 AudioEndpointBuilder, CscService, Netman,
PcaSvc, SysMain, UxSms, Wlansvc, wudfsvc
svchost.exe 1100 EventSystem, FontCache, netprofm, nsi,
SstpSvc, W32Time, WdiServiceHost,
WinHttpAutoProxySvc
svchost.exe 1152 AeLookupSvc, BDESVC, BITS, CertPropSvc,
EapHost, gpsvc, hkmsvc, IKEEXT, iphlpsvc,
LanmanServer, ProfSvc, RasMan, Schedule,
SENS, ShellHWDetection, Themes, Winmgmt
stacsv64.exe 1188 STacSV
Observe that, the list of services associated with the processes is displayed under the “Services” column.
We can even apply a filter to verify whether the application is currently running.
For example: to verify whether “chrome.exe” is running; you can type the below command.
C:\>tasklist /fi "imagename eq chrome.exe" Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage ========================= ======== ================ =========== ============ chrome.exe 1948 Console 1 165,936 K chrome.exe 9052 Console 1 34,452 K C:\>
Where “/fi” is the switch used to filter the list of tasks on certain conditions. The condition should be in double quotes (“) and “eq” or “ne” are the operators, we can use for equal or non-equal checks respectively. The “imagename” is the filter name we can use, to filter the tasks or processes based on the name.
To know the list of processes or tasks using memory > Size (for example 100 MB), the filter looks like the below:
/fi “memusage gt 102400”
when we use the “memusage” filter, the memory value we need to specify in KBs. So 100 MB = 102400 KB. The result looks like the below:
C:\>tasklist /fi "memusage gt 102400" Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage ========================= ======== ================ =========== ============ svchost.exe 1076 Services 0 244,776 K chrome.exe 1948 Console 1 166,408 K C:\>
Even we can find out the list of processes that are not responding, by using the below command.
C:\>tasklist /fi "status eq not responding" Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage ========================= ======== ================ =========== ============ jusched.exe 6576 Console 1 11,444 K C:\>
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