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The following command will help you to get and display a list of all running applications on your Windows operating system from the command line interface. By default, it will print the image name, process ID (PID), session name, session number/ID, memory usage of each process. Just open a command prompt (cmd.exe) and enter the following command.

tasklist

You may also pipe the output of this tool to the clipboard in order to paste and view the result in a text editor such as notepad.

tasklist | clip

Example output:

Image name                     PID Session-Name       Session-ID Memory usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ===============
System Idle Process              0 Services                   0            20 K
System                           4 Services                   0        20.920 K
smss.exe                       408 Services                   0         1.144 K
csrss.exe                      560 Services                   0         5.848 K
wininit.exe                    616 Services                   0         6.212 K
services.exe                   720 Services                   0        11.596 K
lsass.exe                      728 Services                   0        17.864 K
svchost.exe                    832 Services                   0        12.432 K
nvvsvc.exe                     864 Services                   0        11.272 K
svchost.exe                    900 Services                   0        10.656 K
svchost.exe                    960 Services                   0        34.756 K
svchost.exe                    568 Services                   0        53.284 K
svchost.exe                    676 Services                   0        31.844 K
svchost.exe                   1092 Services                   0       108.956 K

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