Examples

Download a web page

> $web = Net.WebClient

if get an error, try the following instead

> $web = [System.Net.WebClient]

> $web.DownloadString("http://www.example.com")

To obtain the top 5 process by CPU percent utilization in decending order

$CPUPercent = @{   
	Name = 'CPUPercent'   
	Expression = {     
		$TotalSec = (New-TimeSpan -Start $_.StartTime).TotalSeconds     
		[Math]::Round( ($_.CPU * 100 / $TotalSec), 2)   } 
}  

Get-Process | Select-Object -Property Name, CPU, $CPUPercent, Description |  
Sort-Object -Property CPUPercent -Descending |  
Select-Object -First 5