Month: August 2014

All PowerShell Versions Windows starts a high definition counter each time it boots, and this counter will return the milliseconds the system runs:...

All PowerShell Versions If you'd like to know whether there are currently USB storage devices attached to your computer, WMI can help:...

All PowerShell Versions To test whether a particular service is still responding, use a clever trick. First, ask WMI for the service you want to...

All PowerShell Versions The WMI service can report plenty of details about the computer hardware. Typically, each type of hardware is represented by...

All PowerShell Versions If you want to find out whether a computer is frequently put into sleep or hibernation mode, here is a function that reads...

All PowerShell Versions When you parse text-based log files, or need to filter other types of information, you typically use Where-Object. Here are...

All PowerShell Versions Get-HotFix is a built-in cmdlet that returns the installed hotfixes. It has no parameter to filter on hotfix ID, though....

All PowerShell Versions Windows logs all shutdown events in its System event log. From there, you can extract and analyze the information. Here is a...

All PowerShell versions Get-ChildItem does not support advanced file filtering. While you can use simple wildcards, you cannot use regular...

All PowerShell versions When you use Get-ChildItem to get a list of files, you may have noticed that the -Filter parameter occasionally returns more...

All PowerShell versions When you run a console application inside the ISE editor, non-standard characters such as “ä” or...

PowerShell 3.0 and newer Here’s a quick function that works both in the ISE editor and the PowerShell console in PowerShell 3.0 and above):...

All PowerShell versions Group-Object can pile objects up, putting objects with the same property together in one pile. This can be quite useful,...

All PowerShell versions Writing PowerShell code is fun but can be frustrating at times. Here’s a function that makes PowerShell cheer you up....

All PowerShell versions You probably know that in a PowerShell console (not the ISE editor), you can turn on logging: PS> Start-Transcript This...

All PowerShell versions If your computer has a sound card, here is a code snippet that will drive your colleagues nuts: function prompt { 1..3 |...