Chapter 14: Task Management

📊 Process Auditing with tasklist

If an application freezes, hangs, or consumes too much CPU or RAM, system administrators use Command Line tools instead of the graphical Task Manager in 🪟 Windows 11:

• List Processes: Running tasklist displays a table of all active applications and background services, including their Image Name, Process ID (PID), Session Name, and Mem Usage (in KB).
• Verbose Details (/v):
  >_Command Prompt

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  tasklist /v
  

  Run Commands »Interactive Console
  Displays additional fields including the user account running each process and the exact window title name (e.g. Nextsem - Google Chrome).
• Filtering Results (/fi): You can filter processes using query operators (like gt for greater than):
  >_Command Prompt

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  tasklist /fi "memusage gt 100000"
  

  Run Commands »Interactive Console
  Lists only the processes that consume more than 100 MB of system RAM.