Topic: sysinternals

• Windows process-level performance diagnosis: Get-Process, Get-CimInstance, and handle counts

  Get-Process sorts by working set or cumulative CPU time; the Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process CIM class gives a computed CPU-percentage rate instead; a steadily climbing handle count is the signature of a leak, and Process Explorer or Process Monitor add the detail PowerShell does not expose.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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