How Can I Delete All the Duplicates in a Set of Processes But Keep the Oldest Process?
This blog corresponds to the scripting guy column with the same title. I am posting the script for doing the same with PowerShell
1: $processes = get-wmiobject -query "Select * from win32_process where name = 'notepad.exe'"
2:
3: if ($processes.count -le 2 )
4: { 5: return
6: }
7:
8: $datetarget = [DateTime]::Now
9:
10: foreach ($process in $processes)
11: { 12: $dateholder = $process.CreationDate
13: $dateholder = $process.ConvertToDateTime($dateholder)
14:
15: if ( $dateholder -le $datetarget)
16: { 17: $processid = $process.ProcessID
18: $datetarget = $dateholder
19: }
20:
21: }
22:
23:
24: $processes = get-wmiobject -query " select * from win32_process where name='notepad.exe' AND processID <> $processid"
25:
26: foreach ($process in $processes)
27: { 28: $process.Terminate()
29: }
