{"id":2398,"date":"2013-12-17T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/12\/17\/powertip-use-powershell-to-list-app-background-task-info\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-list-app-background-task-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-list-app-background-task-info\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to List App Background Task Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to list app background task information.<\/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 find performance information about app background tasks on my laptop running Windows&nbsp;8.1?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-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;<strong>Get-AppBackgroundTask<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and include the complete name of the app and the&nbsp;<strong>&ndash;IncludeResourceUsage<\/strong>&nbsp;switch. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Select the&nbsp;<strong>PerfInfo<\/strong>&nbsp;property and expand it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Get-AppBackgroundTask -PackageFamilyName Microsoft.SkypeApp_kzf8qxf38zg5c -IncludeResourceUsage | <br \/>select &ndash;expand perfinfo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to list app background task information. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find performance information about app background tasks on my laptop running Windows&nbsp;8.1? &nbsp;Open Windows PowerShell with Admin rights. Use the&nbsp;Get-AppBackgroundTask&nbsp;cmdlet, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and include the complete name of the app and the&nbsp;&ndash;IncludeResourceUsage&nbsp;switch. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to list app background task information. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find performance information about app background tasks on my laptop running Windows&nbsp;8.1? &nbsp;Open Windows PowerShell with Admin rights. Use the&nbsp;Get-AppBackgroundTask&nbsp;cmdlet, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and include the complete name of the app and the&nbsp;&ndash;IncludeResourceUsage&nbsp;switch. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","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=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/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=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}