Get Process Owners

Great script.

Btw comments seem to be working ;-)

Ah. It helps to be logged in. ;)

I too like the script. I started modding it by making it a one-liner but ended up wanting to use this in my profile as an everyday tool so I went the other direction and expanded the script instead.

function Get-PSOwner($searchString)

{

   $foundProcess = ps $searchString

   if($foundProcess -eq $null) { return; }

   gwmi Win32_Process -Filter ("Handle={0}" -f $foundProcess.id ) |

       % { Add-Member `

           -InputObject $_ `

           -MemberType NoteProperty `

           -Name Owner `

           -Value ($_.GetOwner().User) `

           -PassThru } |

       select Name, Handle, Owner

}

Your nice little function won't work if you get more than one process, and you will get an error if it doesn't find any, so I've added "-ea silentlycontinue" part and piped $foundprocess to "gwmi" script block:

function Get-PSOwner($searchString)

{

  $foundProcess = ps $searchString -ea silentlycontinue

  if($foundProcess -eq $null) { return; }

$foundprocess | % {

  gwmi Win32_Process -Filter ("Handle={0}" -f $_.id ) |

      % { Add-Member `

          -InputObject $_ `

          -MemberType NoteProperty `

          -Name Owner `

          -Value ($_.GetOwner().User) `

          -PassThru } |

      select Name, Handle, Owner

}

}

Usage:

Get-PSOwner explorer

Get-PSOwner exp*