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2. Process & Service Management in PowerShell

Managing services and background processes.

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PowerShell cmdlets for administration: - `Get-Service -Name "wuauserv" | Stop-Service` - `Get-Process -Name "node" | Stop-Process -Force` - `Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 8080` (find processes holding ports).

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