Here’s a tip from my colleague Ed Wilson (the Microsoft Scripting Guy) about how to use PowerShell to get background task performance usage for modern apps:
Question: You are concerned about the resources consumed by background apps for modern apps on your Windows 8.1 computer. How can you get this information?
Answer: Use the Get-AppxPackage cmdlet to retrieve the modern app package. Pipeline the results to the Foreach-Object cmdlet and call the Get-AppBackGroundTask cmdlet. Use the –PackageFamilyName parameter to hone in on the specific package. Use the –includeresourceusage parameter to get the resource information. Finally, use the Select-Object cmdlet and expand the perfinfo parameter. An example of this command appears here for the facebook app (this is a single line command broken in a few places for printing on the blog):
Get-AppxPackage -Name *facebook* |
Foreach {Get-AppBackgroundTask -PackageFamilyName $_.packagefamilyname -IncludeResourceUsage} |
select -ExpandProperty perfinfo
NOTE: this command must run with admin rights
Mitch Tulloch is a nine-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and a widely recognized expert on Windows administration, deployment and virtualization. For more information see http://www.mtit.com.
Ed Wilson is the bestselling author of eight books about Windows Scripting, including Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step, and Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Steps. He writes a daily blog about Windows PowerShell call Hey, Scripting Guy! that is hosted on the Microsoft TechNet Script Center; for more PowerTips check out the Hey, Scripting Guy! blog.
