PowerShell modules help IT professionals and business owners organize multiple scripts into a single, reusable package, making code easier to manage, share and maintain. While individual scripts work ...

Most of the personal use PowerShell scripts that I have written over the years might best be described as utilitarian. In other words, those scripts do exactly what I need for them to do -- nothing ...

This simple script tamed my Downloads folder.

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. Up until a few years ago, PowerShell ...

PowerShell is not just an application, it is a scripting language built on .Net CLR that automates IT tasks. It has backward compatibility with CMD and can automate simple or complex tasks. Because of ...

I am trying to learn PowerShell (using V3) and have a need to create a script that will copy a folder structure with logging. Originally I made a small script calling robocopy and that worked quite ...

On Windows 10, the Task Scheduler is a useful tool that has been around for many years, and it provides a friendly graphical interface to create automated routines. When you use this tool, you can ...

When automating a ton of tasks, creating a visual cue on the activate is helpful in knowing that things are running smoothly. No one likes to wait. We all want stuff done now but, unfortunately, ...