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Let's assume you have a variable with a negative value, and you'd like to make it a positive value. Here's a simple way: Basically, this...

PowerShell can read and write Registry keys and values easily, but there is no a built-in way to check the data type of a given value. To find out...

In a previous tip, we illustrated how you can feed HTML data to Excel in order to create formatted Excel sheets. Today, we'll show you an easy...

When you convert PowerShell results to CSV or HTML output, you may have discovered that some properties don't display correctly. PowerShell...

PowerShell can send data to Excel using CSV files easily. Here's a short script creating a list of running services and opening it in Excel...

Here's a simple way of finding unassigned drive letters: If you just want any unused drive letter, pipe the result to Get-Random. This approach...

PowerShell 3.0 introduces two new operators to bitwise shift. You can use these, for example, to convert GB to MB or KB to GB: -shr 10 basically...

In a previous tip we explained how you can tell PowerShell not to debug certain functions by adding a special attribute: function test {...

Suggestions are little pieces of text that can appear next to a PowerShell error message to better explain what went wrong. Suggestions only work in...

Here's how you can pick a certificate from your certificate store. This line will return certificates that have "Tobias" in the...

Starting with PowerShell 3.0, the certificate provider has become a lot more powerful. It can now easily delete certificates plus their associated...

When you run a console command inside a non-console PowerShell host (like the ISE editor), there will be a flashing window, indicating that the host...