Enumerating Additional Process Properties

Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide

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In addition to basic process properties such as executable path name and working set size, WMI scripts can retrieve additional properties for each process. These additional properties include such things as:

• Information about the process owner (the account name under which the process is running).
• Information about each thread in the process.

Although rarely needed for routine monitoring, these properties can be useful in diagnosing problems. Monitoring each thread in a process can help verify that an application is leaking memory. Knowing who owns a process tells you who is running an application on a computer. This information can also be useful when helping remote users terminate processes. Users can terminate only those processes that run under their user account; if a user is unable to stop a process on his or her computer, it might be because the process is running under a different account.

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