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If you have Windows Defender installed on your machine, you can use this PowerShell command to run a quick scan on a drive of your choice: PS>...

By default, the Telnet client is disabled on Windows systems. You can easily enable it with a one liner in PowerShell, though. Just launch a...

By default, PowerShell remoting uses Kerberos authentication and works only in domain environments, and only when you specify computer names, not IP...

Beginning in PowerShell 4.0, you can use validators for variable assignments. This gives you a quick and easy way of validating user input, too. The...

To restore custom settings in PowerShell ISE to factory defaults, try running these lines: $PSise.Options.RestoreDefaults()...

Have you ever tried to enable PowerShell remoting with Enable-PSRemoting, and just got an error complaining about not being able to check the...

Sometimes, Windows Explorer does not show correct icons. When you update to PowerShell 5.0, for example, both PowerShell and PowerShell ISE got new...

If you need to return multiple items in a nicely formatted text report, here is a simple trick: get yourself an ordered hash table (supported in...

Test-Connection can ping multiple computers only sequentially, and it does not let you specify a timeout. So when you need to check a large number...

The Test-Connection cmdlet implements a simple ping to check whether a system responds to an ICMP request. Unfortunately, you cannot specify a...

When you run a native console command via PowerShell remoting, special characters like German Umlauts will be damaged because remoting uses a rather...

PowerShell supports not just the file system, so you can set the current path to a different provider (Set-Location). Here is a trick that always...