Powershell Kill all processes except system - powershell

Question

In powershell, I would like to kill all processes for all users, except explorer and processes used by the system
This is where I am including the errors that are given:
$Cred = Get-Credential;
Invoke-Command -ComputerName localhost -Credential $Cred -ScriptBlock { Get-Process $env:ALLUSERSPROFILE | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Name -ne "SYSTEM, NETWORK SERVICE, LOCAL SERVICE"} | Where-Object -filterscript {$_.Name -ne "explorer"} | Stop-Process -WhatIf }
Cannot find a process with the name "C:\ProgramData". Verify the process name and call the cmdlet again.
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (C:\ProgramData:String) [Get-Process], ProcessCommandException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoProcessFoundForGivenName,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetProcessCommand
+ PSComputerName : localhost

Answer 1

Here, this should work for you.
Function Stop-UserProcesses{
Param([string]$Computer = "localhost")
$Cred = Get-Credential
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Computer -Credential $Cred -ScriptBlock {
Get-Process -IncludeUserName | Where{!($_.UserName -match "NT AUTHORITY\\(?:SYSTEM|(?:LOCAL|NETWORK) SERVICE)") -and !($_.ProcessName -eq "explorer")}|Stop-Process -WhatIf
}
}
Once you are convinced that it is functional remove the -WhatIf. Then just call it as Stop-UserProcesses to end everything locally, or Stop-UserProcesses SomeComputer01 to end everything on a remote system (assuming you have remote sessions enabled in your environment).
Edit: Well then, evidently the -IncludeUserName switch is new in v4. So, in order to do what you want we have to jump through hoops and use Get-WMIObject on the win32_process class, then execute the GetOwner() method for each process. Probably want to filter it so we don't end up with things like Idle throwing errors when they don't have an owner, so we'll make sure that the CommandLine property exists.
Function Stop-UserProcesses{
Param([string]$Computer = "localhost")
$Cred = Get-Credential
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Computer -Credential $Cred -ScriptBlock {
#Get all processes
$Processes = get-wmiobject win32_process|Where{![string]::IsNullOrEmpty($_.commandline)}|Select *,#{l='Owner';e={$_.getowner().user}}
#Filter out System and service processes
$Processes = $Processes | Where { !($_.Owner -match "(?:SYSTEM|(?:LOCAL|NETWORK) SERVICE)") }
#Get processes and filter on the Process ID and name = explorer, then pipe to stop-process
Get-Process | Where { $Processes.ProcessID -contains $_.id -and $_.name -ne "explorer" } | Stop-Process -WhatIf
}
}