PowerShell: Starting process with variable parsed from Get-Process - powershell

Question

I am currently writing a PowerShell script to stop a few processes, start a program, and then restart those processes. The problem arises when I feed the processes into an array variable to restart them later.
My code:
$direc = "C:\Program Files (x86)\PathTo\Program.exe";
$arguments = "/theseArguments1", "/theseArguments2";
$processesDefined = #();
$processes = "notepad", "explorer";
ForEach ($i in $processes)
{
$processesDefined += get-process -name $i | select-object path;
get-process -name $i | stop-process -force;
}
start-process -filepath $direc -ArgumentList $arguments -NoNewWindow -wait;
ForEach ($i in $processesDefined)
{
start-process -filepath $i;
}
When debugging the $processesDefined.Count displays 2 and the $processesDefined displays as expected yet when it gets to tjhe time to start the processes I get:
Start-Process : This command cannot be executed due to the error: The system ca
nnot find the file specified.
At D:\Desktop\Aion.ps1:17 char:18
+ start-process <<<< -FilePath $i;
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Start-Process], InvalidOp
erationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.C
ommands.StartProcessCommand
I've done a lot of searching but can't find anything of real help. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Output of $processesDefined:
[DBG]: PS D:\Desktop>>> $processesDefined
Path
----
C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmpnetwk.exe
C:\Windows\explorer.exe
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Answer 1

Try doing it this way. The way you are doing it leaves the variable $processesDefined with a table heading (PATH) and this will screw things up.
$processesDefined += (get-process -name $i).Path
This way will just give you the path with no table heading