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

Over the last few years, I have created a vast library of PowerShell scripts that I use to keep my servers healthy. These scripts do everything from monitoring disk health to helping me to reclaim ...

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.

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

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.

To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds.

Scripts in PowerShell are basically just text files with the special filename extension of ps1. To create a script, you enter a bunch of PowerShell commands in a sequence in a new Notepad file (or ...

If running this command on a domain-joined machine, PowerShell should automatically find the domain controller to query. By using an asterisk, I can pull all users from AD.