{"id":73891,"date":"2015-08-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/18\/powertip-find-processes-with-high-priority\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:36","slug":"powertip-find-processes-with-high-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-processes-with-high-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Processes with High Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find processes that have a high priority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to quickly see what processes have a high priority or an above normal priority?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Open Windows PowerShell with Admin rights, use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Process<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to return processes, and filter <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;processes that are using high or above normal priority, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">gps | where {$_.priorityclass -eq &#039;AboveNormal&#039; -OR $_.priorityclass -eq &#039;high&#039;} | select name, priorityclass<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find processes that have a high priority. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to quickly see what processes have a high priority or an above normal priority? &nbsp;Open Windows PowerShell with Admin rights, use the&nbsp;Get-Process&nbsp;cmdlet to return processes, and filter &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;processes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,356,87,3,45],"class_list":["post-73891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-powertip","tag-processes","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find processes that have a high priority. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to quickly see what processes have a high priority or an above normal priority? &nbsp;Open Windows PowerShell with Admin rights, use the&nbsp;Get-Process&nbsp;cmdlet to return processes, and filter &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;processes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}