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The most widely known PowerShell hosts are certainly powershell.exe and powershell_ise.exe because they ship out-of-the-box. However, there can be...

Most modern computers have more than one processor, either physical or logical. If you’d like to find out the number of processors, here is a...

In the previous tip we illustrated how you can dump all passwords from your personal Windows Password Vault. The same is true for basically any...

Windows has a protected password vault where it can store your secret passwords so you don’t have to always enter them manually in Internet...

To download and install the Google Chrome browser, simply combine a couple of generic PowerShell commands: $Installer =...

In the previous tip we used an old COM technique to display a pop-up box with a built-in timeout. That worked pretty well except that the dialog box...

Maybe you stumbled across code like this in the past: $shell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell $value = $shell.Popup('Restart...

The PowerShell pipeline tends to be slow when it is processing a lot of elements. This can take a lot of time: $result = 1..15000 | ForEach-Object {...

It may be useful for PowerShell to know whether a given key is currently pressed. This way, your profile script could, for example, do things during...

Advanced PowerShell users often find themselves doing one of three things: They run a previous command and add Get-Member to learn more about the...

When you override Out-Default to do something meaningful, you really want to make sure the old behavior isn’t lost, and instead just something...

Out-Default is a hidden PowerShell cmdlet that gets called at the end of each command, and outputs results to the console. You can override this...

Typically, Out-GridView opens a window and displays whatever you pipe into the cmdlet: PS C:\> Get-Service | Out-GridView However, with a little...

At psconf.eu there was recently a challenge for the shortest code to check for how often a password was previously pwnd (hacked). Here is the result...

Some geocoding APIs provide sophisticated sentiment analysis like in the example below: "Most important museums of Amsterdam are located on the...

Geocoding can automatically extract geolocations from text. This example also shows a new way of submitting information to a server: in the example...

Today, we’d like to do the opposite and translate latitude and longitude into an address: '52.37799,9.75195' | ForEach-Object -Begin...

Let’s start with translating addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates. We assume you read the previous parts to fully understand the...

Last year, Google changed their terms and requires an individual API key now to use their geocode API. Fortunately, there are free alternatives, so...

Sometimes, web requests that work fine in a browser do not seem to work well in PowerShell. For example, when you navigate to...

When using comparison operators, always make sure the relevant part is placed left. That’s because PowerShell looks at the left side of an...

Whenever a user locks his machine, and whenever a user unlocks a machine, Windows emits an event. PowerShell can subscribe to these events and do...

The Windows Update Client maintains its own log of installed updates. Rather than querying the generic system event log, or actively searching for...

Get-Hotfix returns installed hotfixes but really only is a wrapper around the Win32_QuickFixEngineering WMI class. It is not returning all installed...