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kimo pryvt
Asked: 2017-01-13 20:39:33 +0800 CST

Kill (close) reliability monitor windows by PID powershell

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I am trying create a process of the windows reliability monitor and kill it after I take a screenshot.

I am having trouble to get the process and automatically close it before I take the screenshot because there is no process ID that identifies that window.

there is any way to close the reliability monitor via PowerShell?

$psi = New-object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
$psi.CreateNoWindow = $false
$psi.UseShellExecute = $true
$psi.RedirectStandardOutput = $false
$psi.RedirectStandardError = $false
$psi.FileName = "Perfmon"
$psi.Arguments ="/rel"
$process = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Process
$process.StartInfo = $psi
[void]$process.Start()
#$output = $process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd()
$process.id
Start-Sleep 5
windows powershell pid kill-process

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    perfmon /rel starts perfmon but ends up opening the Reliability Monitor in the Explorer Process so there is no Process you can kill. As per your own comments the Reliability Monitor has no command line reporting you can make use of, all that I can think of is to

    • enumerate the windows of the shell
    • find the Reliability Monitor
    • Quit the window

    in code

    $shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
$window = $shell.Windows() | Where-Object { $_.LocationName -eq "Reliability Monitor" }
$window | ForEach-Object { $_.Quit() }
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