Windows Process Viewer

Windows Process Viewer

listWin Processes.rb

The process viewer in Windows Task Manager can be extremely frustrating, due to a lack of information. If you have ever used the ps command on a Unix-like system, you know how much more information is available besides the process name, CPU/memory usage, and process owner. Some applications make nice, detailed entries in the process viewer, and those tasks are easy to identify, but other applications have some ambiguous name that doesn't do you any favors. Having an alternative way to view the processes is handy because you can customize the script to show exactly what is important to you. This script demonstrates how to retrieve every available process property.

The Code

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