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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,...

Many PowerShell users start to take a look at PowerShell 7, and run it side-by-side to the built-in Windows PowerShell. Both PowerShell versions...

Good news for any PowerShell users dealing with Active Directory: in recent Windows 10 builds (Enterprise, Professional), Microsoft included the...

When Windows installed updates or made related changes to the operating system, changes may become effective only after a reboot. While a reboot is...

There is no a built-in way to launch a PowerShell script hidden: even if you run powershell.exe and specify -WindowStyle Hidden, the PowerShell...

Process objects returned by Get-Process can tell whether the process is currently responding to window messages and thus to user requests. This line...

If you’d like to test whether a specific computer or URL is online, for decades ping requests (ICMP) have been used. In recent times, many servers...

PowerShell comes with Test-NetConnection which works like a sophisticated ping tool. In its default, you can ping computers: PS>...