PowerShell Script to find Process IDs of an Executable

To find the priority of Threads of a process, copy the following script and execute in PowerShell

$timeoutInSeconds = 100;
$processName = "myExecutable.exe"

$processList = Get-WmiObject win32_process | where { $_.ProcessName -eq "$processName" } | select Handle
foreach ($processIds in $processList)
{
    $processId = $processIds.Handle
    Write-Host "process id = $processId"
}


Disclaimer: Use at your own risk. The author does not take any responsibility for the behavior of this script.

Kill Remote Process using PowerShell

Here are the steps to kill a process running on remote machine

1. Start PowerShell
2. $processes = Get-WmiObject -class win32_process -ComputerName <name_of_computer> -Filter "Name='notepad.exe'"
3. $x = $processes.terminate()
4. echo $x

Return value should be 0

PowerShell - PSCredential

You can find the usage of PowerShell PSCredential from my other blog post on MSDN http://blogs.msdn.com/b/koteshb/archive/2010/02/13/powershell-creating-a-pscredential-object.aspx