Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from ...

Using GPEDIT or REGEDIT, make Windows run PowerShell scripts first at logon, logoff, startup, and shutdown before the OS runs other scripts.

PowerShell provides its own command line interface where you can type PowerShell commands or start more complex scripts. To enter this interface, type "powershell.exe" in the Windows run area of ...

PowerShell is a command-line tool designed by Microsoft to run commands and scripts to change settings and automate tasks. In a way, it’s similar to Command Prompt.

Windows makes it possible to schedule PowerShell scripts to run at a predetermined time. The mechanism of choice for automating PowerShell scripts is the Windows Task Scheduler.

With the "sleep 60" command, the script pings at 63 seconds, then 65 seconds later, then 62 seconds later, and so on. After 24 hours, the whole script has drifted forward by 2 or 3 minutes.

Shell ISE provides a user-friendly environment for writing and running PowerShell scripts. Let's first examine how to access it on Windows computers and familiarize ourselves with its interface: 1.

Here's a look at the Invoke-Command cmdlet and how it will be extended in Windows Server 2016.

Command-line utilities were built with these streams in mind. PowerShell, on the other hand, understands these streams but has its own as well. When invoking command-line utilities from PowerShell, ...