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PowerShell can read and also change any part of a scheduled task. Just make sure you have appropriate permissions and run PowerShell elevated....

PowerShell 3.0 does not ship with help files. Instead, they need to be downloaded separately using Update-Help. Unfortunately, PowerShell 3.0 help...

There is a COM interface that you can use to select and dump any scheduled task definition. Just make sure you are running PowerShell with full...

Here's a simple trick to reverse a text string: $text = 'Hello World' $text = $Text.ToCharArray() [Array]::Reverse($text) -join $text...

Let's assume your script may or may not need to do a privileged operation, for example write a value to a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE branch, depending...

There are many ways in PowerShell to create new objects. One of the more advanced approaches uses a hash table to determine object properties and...

If you need to know the number of files in a folder, there are different approaches with different advantages and disadvantages. The first one is...

Let's assume you have a CSV file with information that you need to frequently look up. For example, the CSV file may contain server names and...

Write-EventLog lets you write custom entries to event logs, and New-EventLog can add new event logs and event sources. Which raises the question:...

If you want to write plain text information to a file, don't use Out-File. Instead, use Set-Content. It is much faster: $tempfile1 =...

In a previous tip we explained how you can convert a string array into one big string. That's a prerequisite for quickly searching and replacing...

When you use Get-Content to read the content of a text file, you always get back a string array. So each line of your text file is kept separately....