{"id":4096,"date":"2013-02-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/27\/powertip-use-powershell-to-easily-find-how-long-a-process-runs\/"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-easily-find-how-long-a-process-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-easily-find-how-long-a-process-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Easily Find How Long a Process Runs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary:<\/strong> Use Windows PowerShell to show easily how long a process runs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, You need to find how long a particular process has been running. How can you easily do this with Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the New-TimeSpan<\/strong> cmdlet and specify the –Start<\/strong> parameter as the results from Get-Process<\/strong> on a process and the StartTime<\/strong> property. This is shown here using Notepad as an example.<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> New-TimeSpan -Start (get-process notepad).StartTime<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Days       : 0<\/p>\n

Hours       : 6<\/p>\n

Minutes      : 53<\/p>\n

Seconds      : 54<\/p>\n

Milliseconds   : 55<\/p>\n

Ticks       : 248340555164<\/p>\n

TotalDays     : 0.287431198106481<\/p>\n

TotalHours    : 6.89834875455556<\/p>\n

TotalMinutes   : 413.900925273333<\/p>\n

TotalSeconds   : 24834.0555164<\/p>\n

TotalMilliseconds : 24834055.5164<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to show easily how long a process runs.  You need to find how long a particular process has been running. How can you easily do this with Windows PowerShell?  Use the New-TimeSpan cmdlet and specify the –Start parameter as the results from Get-Process on a process and the StartTime property. This […]<\/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-4096","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":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to show easily how long a process runs.  You need to find how long a particular process has been running. How can you easily do this with Windows PowerShell?  Use the New-TimeSpan cmdlet and specify the –Start parameter as the results from Get-Process on a process and the StartTime property. This […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","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=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/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=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}