database-tools

The Windows Registry is a repository filled with various Windows settings. Get-ItemProperty can read Registry values and accepts wildcards. So, with...

When execution policy prevents execution of PowerShell scripts, you can still execute them. There is a secret parameter called "-" . When you use...

To find out when Automatic Updates wakes your PC to install new updates, here is a script that will retrieve that information: $updateObj =...

To control whether Windows download and/or installs updates silently or prompts for permission, use this script and set the appropriate...

To retrieve all error events from a system log that occurred yesterday, here is how to calculate the start and stop times: PS> $end = Get-Date...

To create variables that calculate their content each time they are accessed, use access-triggered variable breakpoints. This line, for example,...

Most sophisticated PowerShell editors have built-in debugging support. PowerShell can handle breakpoints natively, too, though. To make PowerShell...

When you digitally sign scripts, you can easily tell whether a script was manipulated or comes from an untrusted source. Here is a function that can...

When you save scripts with the PowerShell ISE script editor, they are saved with the rather unusual "Big Endian Unicode" encoding....

In a previous tip, we illustrated how you access a code signing certificate that was installed on your computer. With such a certificate, you can...

To digitally sign PowerShell scripts, you need a certificate with the purpose "CodeSigning". Here is how you find out which code signing...

To find out the total size of all subfolders in a directory, try this function: function Get-FolderSize($Path=$home) { $code = { ('{0:0.0}...

To scrape valuable information from websites with PowerShell you can download the HTML code and then use regular expressions to extract what you are...