database-tools

There is unfortunately no standardized way of managing BIOS settings for computer vendors. Each vendor employs proprietary approaches. For Lenovo...

Most cmdlets and functions are part of PowerShell modules. If you’d like to explore where exactly these commands come from, here is an easy...

If you’d like to lock the current workstation from within PowerShell, you can take advantage of the fact that PowerShell can run executables....

PowerShell can run inside WinPE environments. If you’d like to detect whether your PowerShell script runs inside a WinPE environment, you can...

Starting with PowerShell 5, cmdlets like Extract-Archive can extract the content of ZIP files to disk. However, you can always extract only the...

PowerShell comes with new cmdlets like Extract-Archive that can extract (all) files from a ZIP file container. However, there is no way to just list...

Beginning in PowerShell 5, you can assign a validator to a variable. The validator can take a regular expression, and once you assign new values to...

PowerShell by default “forgets” most settings on restart. If you’d like to “keep” settings, you use a profile script....

The PowerShell console (powershell.exe, pwsh.exe) offers extensive completion support. When you enter a command and then add a space and a hyphen,...

In the previous example we showed the code required to read registry values remotely from another machine using the old-fashioned DCOM protocol. If...

If you cannot use PowerShell remoting, and you need to read registry values from another system via DCOM, here is some example code you might want...