{"id":2655,"date":"2013-10-26T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/26\/powertip-find-background-task-info-about-windows-8-1-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-10-26T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-background-task-info-about-windows-8-1-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-background-task-info-about-windows-8-1-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Background Task Info about Windows 8.1 with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;4.0 in Windows&nbsp;8.1 to find 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&nbsp;4.0 to obtain background task information about my Windows 8.1 device?<\/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 the Windows PowerShell console as an administrator, use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-AppBackgroundTask<\/strong>&nbsp;function <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and pipe the results to the&nbsp;<strong>Format-List<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-AppBackgroundTask | Format-List<\/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: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;4.0 in Windows&nbsp;8.1 to find background task information. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;4.0 to obtain background task information about my Windows 8.1 device? &nbsp;Open the Windows PowerShell console as an administrator, use the&nbsp;Get-AppBackgroundTask&nbsp;function &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and pipe the results to [&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":[462,356,3,461,45],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powershell-4-0","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-8-1","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;4.0 in Windows&nbsp;8.1 to find background task information. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;4.0 to obtain background task information about my Windows 8.1 device? &nbsp;Open the Windows PowerShell console as an administrator, use the&nbsp;Get-AppBackgroundTask&nbsp;function &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and pipe the results to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","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=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/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=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}