{"id":4069,"date":"2013-03-04T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/03\/04\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-application-hangs\/"},"modified":"2013-03-04T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-application-hangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-application-hangs\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Application Hangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find applications that are hanging.<\/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 find which applications are hanging on my desktop computer that is running Windows&nbsp;8?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-EventLog<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to query the application log for InstanceID 1002 and a source of&nbsp;<strong>*hang*<\/strong>. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Select <strong>TimeWritten<\/strong> and <strong>Message<\/strong> to see what applications are hanging and when these hangs occur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-EventLog -LogName application -Newest 20 -InstanceId 1002 -source *hang*| <br \/>select timewritten, message&nbsp;<\/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:&nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find applications that are hanging. &nbsp;How can I find which applications are hanging on my desktop computer that is running Windows&nbsp;8? Use the&nbsp;Get-EventLog&nbsp;cmdlet to query the application log for InstanceID 1002 and a source of&nbsp;*hang*. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Select TimeWritten and Message to see what applications are [&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-4069","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:&nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find applications that are hanging. &nbsp;How can I find which applications are hanging on my desktop computer that is running Windows&nbsp;8? Use the&nbsp;Get-EventLog&nbsp;cmdlet to query the application log for InstanceID 1002 and a source of&nbsp;*hang*. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Select TimeWritten and Message to see what applications are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","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=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/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=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}