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Learn how to transform everyday PowerShell one-liners and batch scripts into advanced functions with validation, pipeline support and help. Understand how to organize reusable code into modules with ...

Last night I was playing around with some of the Sysinternals tools and rediscovered a tool called Bginfo. For those who might not be familiar with Sysinternals, it is a collection of free tools ...

When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

We will explain the following methods to install and uninstall Windows PowerShell ISE: Installing PowerShell ISE via Windows Optional Features. Uninstalling PowerShell via Windows Optional features.

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script that helps Windows 10 users securely contribute their computer's unused processing power to Folding@home. Distributed-computing disease research project ...

My Downloads folder has become the Wild West. I have dozens (okay, hundreds) of different files that accumulate on a monthly basis. These include heaps of generically named screenshots, random PDF ...