What does this do? tasklist /m “mscor*”

Question

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Answer 1

It will show processes that have loaded modules (usaully .DLL files) hosting the .NET runtime. The same technique can be used to search for other DLLs that have been loaded.

On a related note, Process Explorer is a Microsoft task manager replacement that will show .NET processes highlighted. I cannot recommend it enough. It is well worth investigating along with the rest of the Sysinternals Suite.

Answer 2

This is a very useful command line tool in windows that shows you a list of all running processes. Passing in a command line parameter of /m "mscor*" lists out all of the processes running on your machine running that are using assemblies that begin with the name "mscor". The "*" is a wildcard character.

Answer 3

It would seem to list all processes using modules like mscoree.dll, mscorwks.dll, etc. This would be .NET processes and possibly processes hosting .NET plug-ins.