We can open task manager by running the command taskmgr from command prompt.
Note that this command launches the task manager GUI. It does not provide task manager functionality in command prompt(CLI). In case if you are looking for some command line equivalent of task manager then tasklist is the right command for you.
C:\>tasklist
Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage
========================= ====== ================ ======== ============
System Idle Process 0 Console 0 28 K
System 4 Console 0 248 K
smss.exe 1292 Console 0 428 K
csrss.exe 1572 Console 0 8,824 K
winlogon.exe 1600 Console 0 8,672 K
services.exe 1644 Console 0 5,300 K
lsass.exe 1656 Console 0 2,332 K
ibmpmsvc.exe 1840 Console 0 1,660 K
svchost.exe 1872 Console 0 5,652 K
svchost.exe 1920 Console 0 5,460 K
svchost.exe 292 Console 0 33,208 K
S24EvMon.exe 520 Console 0 15,504 K
svchost.exe 688 Console 0 4,084 K
svchost.exe 808 Console 0 4,296 K
spoolsv.exe 1236 Console 0 7,432 K
TPHKSVC.exe 1424 Console 0 4,396 K
svchost.exe 1476 Console 0 3,532 K
CcmExec.exe 1516 Console 0 17,036 K
cvpnd.exe 1660 Console 0 5,532 K
tpnumlk.exe 1956 Console 0 2,896 K
DOZESVC.EXE 2028 Console 0 1,192 K
EvtEng.exe 192 Console 0 19,256 K
PresentationFontCache.exe 320 Console 0 7,632 K
iPassPeriodicUpdateServic 432 Console 0 4,620 K
iviRegMgr.exe 508 Console 0 2,460 K
cammute.exe 360 Console 0 3,252 K
micmute.exe 652 Console 0 2,164 K
LMS.exe 680 Console 0 4,756 K
FrameworkService.exe 744 Console 0 11,204 K
mcshield.exe 932 Console 0 174,120 K
Below are some Questions asked by blog readers about taskmgr command.
How about some /switches to start in a particular tab?
unfortunately there’s no such switch with taskmgr command..It always opens with the tab that was active when taskmgr was closed last time…
Thanks for that…How about open Windows 7 Task Manager with “show process’ for all users” active?
That’s also not possible from command line as taskmgr.exe does not accept any kind of parameters. You may try tasklist command which is a non-gui equivalent of taskmgr.