How to find out how long a process has been running for?
Solution 1:
Use New-TimeSpan –Start; passing the StartTime property of the process which you want to know how long has been running. Here an example which shows how long notepad has been running:
PS C:\> New-TimeSpan -Start (get-process notepad).StartTime
Days : 0
Hours : 0
Minutes : 0
Seconds : 2
Milliseconds : 920
Ticks : 29200041
TotalDays : 3.379634375E-05
TotalHours : 0.00081111225
TotalMinutes : 0.048666735
TotalSeconds : 2.9200041
TotalMilliseconds : 2920.0041