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PowerShell launches Windows applications asynchronously. It only waits for the console application so you should use -wait if you want to launch a...

If you are stuck in the console and would like to move over to the Explorer GUI, the next line opens your current folder in an Explorer window:...

Finding the appropriate command for a task is important. With a little trick, PowerShell can help you. Have a look: function ??($keywords) {...

A number of cmdlets provide two parameters that seem to work very similar: -filter and -include: Dir $env:windir -filter *.logDir $env:windir...

"To ship is to choose", so the Help files provided by PowerShell are sometimes outdated. You should use their online versions if you want...

Sometimes, you may run into issues like this once you learned more about the parameters a given cmdlet supports: Get-Random -Minimum 1 -Maximum 50...

Positional parameters can be great time savers as many cmdlets assign a parameter position to its most widely used parameters. This way you do not...

Since Get-Help accepts wild cards, you can easily list all white papers available for a specific topic. Use this to get you all topics that deal...

Beginning with Vista, there is a new console tool called clip.exe, which copies whatever you pipe to it to your clipboard. You should try this if...

PowerShell protects its own pre-defined aliases so you normally cannot override and redefine them. It will still work if you use the correct...

Whenever you want to break up a lot of information in separate page views, you can traditionally pipe to more.com, which is an external executable....

Help information is typically pretty extensive. If you'd like to make the information more readable, you could always pipe the result to the...

The following line opens the folder that stores all the PowerShell white papers. You can open them in your word processor or print them for future...

PowerShell comes with lots of white papers. However, you do not need to know the exact title of the white paper to find information about a specific...

PowerShell v.2 has added remote capabilities to a number of cmdlets, including Get-EventLog. So now you are able to collect important events...

In PowerShell v.2, a number of parameters have been added to Set-ExecutionPolicy, which allows you to change this setting without Admin privileges,...

When you press Tab to auto-complete, PowerShell will look at what you have entered so far to find the most appropriate suggestion. One little known...

You probably already know how to invoke code completion: simply press Tab. You will then see that a new suggestion is displayed each time you do...

You will find that listing installed software can be somewhat difficult as WMI provides the Win32_Product class, which only covers managed installs...

Out-Gridview is a new cmdlet in PowerShell v.2 which allows you to output objects to a "mini" excel sheet like this: Get-Process |...

In PowerShell v.2, remote access is available only to users who hold local administrator privileges. So, even if you do have appropriate remote...

Although 64bit machines have become common place, some techniques are still only 32bit. For example, whenever a PowerShell script tries to access a...

You should call powershell.exe with the options -noprofile -command like this to run a PowerShell script externally: Powershell.exe -noprofile...

You can easily discover the cmdlets suitable for a specific job with the help of a little function: function ??($keywords) { Get-Help * | ? {...