How do you list all processes on the command line in Windows?

Question

Is there a command equivalent to 'ps' on Unix that can list all processes on a Windows machine?

Answer 1

Working with cmd.exe:

tasklist

If you have Powershell:

get-process

Answer 2

If you running windows XP try using the 'tasklist' command. I tried it out with Vista and it seems to also work.

Answer 3

There is a tool called Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line tool (wmic.exe).

You can call "wmic process list" to see all processes.

Answer 4

tasklist or pslist from sysinternals. Also, get-process is amazing from PowerShell.

Answer 5

If you use Powershell, it has the 'ps' command (it is aliased to Get-Process)

Answer 6

I wanted to mention that WMIC (pam's entry) can do a lot more. Have a look at my WMIC snippets page, which is a cheatsheet showing many of the common ways to use WMIC (with sample output shown):

http://quux.wiki.zoho.com/WMIC-Snippets.html

Answer 7

1. Tasklist

2. WMIC /OUTPUT:C:\ProcessList.txt PROCESS get Caption,Commandline,Processid

or

 WMIC /OUTPUT:C:\ProcessList.txt path win32_process get Caption,Processid,Commandline

Answer 8

Is there any way to get a task list that also tells the name of the user the process is running as?