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If you made changes to your profile script and want to see the changes that are in effect without having to close and restart PowerShell, you can...

Profile scripts are automatically executed whenever PowerShell launches. Your profile script is the perfect place to customize your PowerShell...

Enter-PSSession will let you switch your console input to a remote computer—if remoting is enabled on the target computer. Essentially,...

If your company is using an Internet proxy, and you'd like to access Internet with a webclient object, make sure it uses the proxy and supplies...

When you assign strongly typed values to an array, the type declaration will remain intact only as long as you do not add new array content: $array...

Use New-Item like this when you want to create a file plus all the folders necessary to host the file: new-item -type file -force...

Some code may not work right on 64-Bit machines. Use this approach to make PowerShell execute code in an isolated 32-Bit PowerShell session and hand...

When you assign long-running commands to a background session, you may want to get some notification when the job is completed so you don't have...

You can also transfer commands into another PowerShell session and run it in the background. This will find all log files recursively in your...

You should remember that spaces are special characters in PowerShell, too. They are token delimiters, and once you feed arguments to a native...

You probably already know that not all native commands work equally well in PowerShell. Have a look here: find /I /N "dir" *.ps1 In...

There is a great way to download large files from the Internet. This example downloads a tutorial video from Idera that, once downloaded will run in...

You can use this code to open a standard OpenFile dialog in your PowerShell scripts:...

As such, .NET Framework is huge and full of stars, and it is not easy to discover interesting methods buried inside of it. You can use the next...

If you ever needed to run a program as someone else, you can use Start-Process and supply alternate credentials. When you do that, you should also...

If you have User Account Control (UAC) enabled, you may want to run a program elevated. That's easy using Start-Process and the -verb parameter....

Normally, when you launch a program from inside PowerShell, you will lose contact to it. However, by using Start-Process with the -passthru...

Have you ever wondered what a specific culture ID means? Here is a nifty function that will translate a culture ID to the full culture name:...

Ever needed to get your hands on some specific culture IDs? Here is how you can create a list:...

When you want to clear the console content, you probably use "cls" or Clear-Host. For some strange reason, the Clear-Host cmdlet really is...

While there are two paths for changing the console color, will you be able to revert back to the original settings once you set colors via...

Like any other console window, PowerShell has 16 pre-defined colors that you can choose from to set background and foreground color. You can use two...

PowerShell inherits by default variables downstream so subsequent scopes can "see" the parent variables. If you want to turn off variable...

Static variables are accessible everywhere. They can be used to collect data from various scopes in one place. You can use a prefix for a variable...