Find the apps quietly consuming your network

Sometimes, when my network slows down, it’s usually a cloud-sync app, game launcher, or browser process launching several background connections. The taskbar doesn’t give a hint, and even the Resource Monitor may show moderate network usage.

You can see processes with the most active connections, and it’s often called for when you notice any of these:​​​​​​​

Get-NetTCPConnection -State Established |
Group-Object -Property OwningProcess |
Sort-Object Count -Descending |
Select-Object Count,
@{Name=’PID’; Expression={$_.Name}},
@{Name=’ProcessName’; Expression={
try {
(Get-Process -Id $_.Name -ErrorAction Stop).ProcessName
}
catch {
“<terminato>”
}
}}