Learn to create profiles within PowerShell to customize your settings based on your working environment for optimal performance and efficiency. PowerShell (PS) can mean many things depending on the ...
Let’s assume your default startup profile is set as Command Prompt, but you want to open Windows PowerShell. At such a moment, you can use the context menu option to open Windows PowerShell in Windows ...
On Windows 11 (and Windows 10), PowerShell is a powerful command-line interface designed to run commands and scripts that automate tasks and manage system settings. While it serves a similar purpose ...
What malware does Windows Defender recognize? Learn how to use PowerShell’s Defender cmdlets to peek inside the malware signature definitions database. In last week’s article, How to get more from ...
I'm kind of a newb at this, so please be gentle if my code isn't optimal. I worked at this script most of the day yesterday, expanding functionality and thinking of instances that could mess it up. By ...
Last year, I wrote a lesson on working with the ENV: PSDrive. I still encourage students to use $ENV:Computername to get the local computer name instead of using ...
In PowerShell, an alias is a handy shortcut or command alternative. For example, instead of typing Get-ChildItem, you can type ls or dir. Aliases can act as a transition from other shells to ...
A cyberespionage group believed to be from Russia is once again striking political targets, and this time, PowerShell scripts have been weaponized to increase the power of their attacks. The Russian ...
In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...