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Here are three commands often found in PowerShell scripts that you should be careful about because they can have severe side effects: exit“exit” is...

Out-GridView can serve as a universal selection dialog when you add the -PassThru parameter. The one-liner below stops all services you select in...

The Win32_LogicalDevice WMI class represents all logic devices available in a computer, and by querying this “superclass”, you get back all the...

Carbon is one of the most popular free PowerShell modules available from the PowerShell Gallery. Similar to a swiss army knife, it comes with a...

There are many useful PowerShell modules available from the PowerShell Gallery. One helps you managing updates. To download and install it, run:...

In our previous tip we looked at sophisticated completion code that completed application paths. Collecting the completion values could take some...

In the previous tip we explained how you can use [ArgumentCompleter] to add powerful argument completers for parameters. There are limitations...

With the discoveries in our past tips, let’s compose a useful completion code that suggests all available programs you can launch: function...

In our previous tip we looked at [ArgumentCompleter] and how this attribute can add clever code to parameters that provides auto-completion values...

In previous tips we explained various ways of adding argument completers to your parameters. One approach used the [ArgumentCompleter] attribute and...

In the previous tip we read the registry to find out paths to applications you can launch. This approach worked well but had two flaws: first, the...

Ever wondered what the path is to launch a given application? The Windows registry has a key that stores such information: $key =...

In the previous tip we introduced the lesser-known “ArgumentCompletion” attribute that can provide IntelliSense-like autocompletion to parameters....

If you’d like to hardcopy the content of a PowerShell console, you can copy and select the text, but this messes up colors and formatting. A better...

When PowerShell encounters a problem, it displays a rather lengthy error message: PS> 1/0 Attempted to divide by zero. At line:1 char:1 + 1/0 +...

Wouldn’t it be nice if parameters would suggest valid arguments for the user? Sometimes they do. When you type below command and press a SPACE after...

Wouldn’t it be nice if parameters would suggest valid arguments for the user? Sometimes they do. When you type below command and press a SPACE after...

Wouldn’t it be nice if parameters would suggest valid arguments for the user? Sometimes they do. When you type below command and press a SPACE after...

Wouldn’t it be nice if parameters would suggest valid arguments for the user? Sometimes they do. When you type below command and press a SPACE after...

Let’s assume you want to return IP addresses from all network cards but separate them by address type. Here is an approach that uses solely...

Windows Terminal is a new multi-tabbed tool for console-based shells. It is officially available via the Microsoft Store and currently requires...

Chocolatey is a package management system that helps you download and install software packages. Unlike the PowerShell Gallery, Chocolatey is not...

The PowerShell team has once published the rich and detailed PowerShell 3 language reference, and since the core language never changed, this...

Invoke-WebRequest can easily download files for you. The code below downloads the PowerShell Language Reference published by PowerShell Magazine,...