Given its running-name, like "Virtual Disk Service", is there some sort-of simple way to find its PID? I found a code snippet on stackoverflow and I can't understand it at all: 

use Win32::OLE qw(in);

sub matching_processes {
  my($pattern) = @_;

  my $objWMI = Win32::OLE->GetObject('winmgmts://./root/cimv2');
  my $procs = $objWMI->InstancesOf('Win32_Process');

  my @hits;
  foreach my $p (in $procs) {
    push @hits => [ $p->Name, $p->ProcessID ]
      if $p->Name =~ /$pattern/;
  }

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I've looked at Win32::OLE and I cannot figure out what the "GetObject" does. Its description is
Win32::OLE->GetObject(MONIKER, DESTRUCTOR) The GetObject() class method returns an OLE reference to the specified object. The object is specified by a pathname optionally followed by additional item subcomponent separated by exclamation marks '!'. The optional DESTRUCTOR argument has the same semantics as the DESTRUCTOR in new() or GetActiveObject()
Which I mostly can't understand. And worse, the man page for ::OLE doesn't seem to have a InstancesOf method {nor did I see anything in the man page about an "in" that could be exported}. I'm completely baffled. There must be a less obscure want to do this.

In reply to Find a windows process by BernieC

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