Get Top 5 CPU Consuming Processes {PowerShell}

[AceInfinity]

Here's another code I wrote lately in PowerShell scripting that will sort out a list of processes, and take that list sorting each object by CPU consumption in reverse order. From that sorted list it grabs the first 5 Processes in the list using a loop and gets the values of each object ProcessID and ProcessName. I've put the number of Top Processes to display in a variable ($Total) so that it's easy for you to choose how many you want to display with this script.

Code:

# Created by Ace - Copyright 2011 TechLifeForum.net

$Proc = Get-Process | Sort-Object CPU -Descending
$Total = 5
$num = 1

write-host
foreach ($objItm in $Proc) {
    If ($num -gt $Total) {
        break #break the loop
    }
    write-host "$num) " -foregroundcolor "white" -nonewline; write-host $objItm.ProcessName -foregroundcolor "cyan" -nonewline; write-host " - CPU:"$objItm.CPU
    write-host "# ID:" $objItm.ID -foregroundcolor "white"
    write-host
    $num += 1
}

write-host
write-host ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -foregroundcolor "cyan"
write-host These are your top $Total CPU consuming processes... -foregroundcolor "cyan"
write-host ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -foregroundcolor "cyan"
write-host

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