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To turn PowerShell results in a HTML report, simply pipe the results to ConvertTo-Html, then save the result to file. So in its most basic form, it...

On Windows 10, when you open a PowerShell console, simply hold CTRL+SHIFT, then turn your mouse wheel, to control console background transparency....

Sometimes, the Microsoft.Update.Session object is used to check whether a given update is present on a machine. Some authors query the text title...

When you want to examine installed updates on your machine, rather than searching for updates online and then comparing the installation status with...

When PowerShell asks Windows for updates via the Microsoft.Update.Session object, some information seems to be unreadable. The code below dumps...

Windows can automatically determine the updates that may be missing on your system, provided you have an Internet connection. PowerShell can use the...

In the previous tip we introduced the PreCommandLookupAction supported by PowerShell 3 and better. Today we have a special implementation for you....

PowerShell comes with a couple of “secret” (better: under-documented) settings. One is PreCommandLookupAction, and it gives you great...

In the previous tip you have discovered how ConvertFrom-StringData can turn plain text key-value pairs into a hash table. What’s missing is...

In the previous tip we used ConvertFrom-StringData to parse plain text key-value pairs into hash tables. Here is an example where such conversion...

Let’s assume you want to save settings to a file in the most simplest form. Your settings may look like this: $settings = ' Name=Weltner...

In the previous tip we presented code that would update the PowerShell title bar in a background thread, displaying a live clock. Wouldn’t it...

To continuously update the PowerShell title bar, and for example display the current date and time, you need a background thread that takes care of...

Add-Type can be used to load additional .NET assemblies from DLL files into PowerShell. This works well most of the time, and here is a sample call...

PowerShell maintains its own current location: PS> Get-Location Path ---- C:\Users\tobwe The current location applies to relative paths used with...