Recipe 6.7. Viewing the Properties of a ProcessProblemYou want to view the properties of a process. This includes the process executable path, command line, current working directory, parent process (if any), owner, and startup timestamp. SolutionUsing a graphical user interface
Some of this information can also be viewed using Windows Task Manager (taskmgr.exe). After starting taskmgr.exe, click on the Processes tab. Select View The tasklist.exe command can display a subset of the properties described in the Problem section. Here is an example that displays properties for a specific process: Another option from the command line is to use wmic to harness the power of WMI. You can retrieve all of the properties defined by the Win32_Process class (see Table 6-3) by running this simple command: You can also limit the output to a single process. The following example retrieves the properties for the snmp.exe process: Recipe 6.1 for a list of Win32_Process properties |