Background Work

Background Work: Background Jobs and Parallel Work.

Updated November 10, 2026

1. Background Jobs and Parallel Work (Freelancer): Start-ThreadJob runs a script block in the background while you keep working, Get-Job shows its State, and Receive-Job hands over what it printed; ForEach-Object -Parallel does each item in its own runspace, -ThrottleLimit 4 at a time, which resizes 500 photos in a quarter of the time, with $using: to bring in a variable from outside.