# Programs

Programs: What's Running: \`Get-Process\` and \`Stop-Process\`, Starting Programs: \`Start-Process\`.

Updated: November 10, 2026

1. [What's Running: \`Get-Process\` and \`Stop-Process\`](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/powershell-processes) (Apprentice): Every running program is a process with a number, its Id: Get-Process lists them with their memory (WS) and processor time (CPU), Sort-Object puts the busiest first, CommandLine tells two PowerShells apart, and Stop-Process -Id stops one, after a rehearsal with -WhatIf.
2. [Starting Programs: \`Start-Process\`](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/powershell-start-process) (Journeyman): Start-Process opens a file or folder in the app a double-click would use, starts a program with arguments in its own window or none, hands back its process with -PassThru, waits for it with -Wait or Wait-Process so you can read its ExitCode, and asks Windows for administrator rights with -Verb RunAs.

Source: https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/powershell-in-depth/topics/powershell-programs