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Command line tools to view process list in Windows 10. pslist slow

Writer Andrew Henderson

Default Task Manager and Sysinternals ProcessExplorer are well-known GUI applications to show processes details in Windows 10. I use both.

Windows 10 comes also with command-line tasklist.exe.
It shows the processes list and but I can not make it show them in tree mode.
From here I tried with /SVC with no luck.

Just downloaded Sysinternals PsTools which come with pslist.exe & pslist64.exe.
This one seems to be that tool I want, since it can show all processes in tree mode.
It is like a command-line ProcessExplorer.

The only problems is that pslist takes a lot of time to show the results.
As a comparison, tasklist.exe takes less than 3 seconds to show all the processes.
Whereas pslist (both exes) take about 26 seconds, either showing or not as tree.

Why is pslist so slow? Are there other alternatives?

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