By Alex Angelopoulos, 11/18/2011
Paths to key OS and user folders aren't always standardized. Here's a way to reliably find and use them in your PowerShell scripts.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 06/15/2011
The Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) is significantly underused, despite its labor-saving features. Here’s what it has to offer.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 03/14/2011
VMware vSphere PowerCLI includes a wealth of tools that extend PowerShell for VMware server management.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 10/11/2010
The WshShortcut object lets you write Unicode content to its properties but throws an error or mangles that content when you attempt to save the shortcut. Here's how you can work ...
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 10/05/2010
Some PowerShell scripts can be useful but consume a great deal of memory, take a long time to complete, or both. Here are some tips on how to improve the performance of such ...
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 08/25/2010
When you successfully perform a task in Windows PowerShell, the commands you've issued are intrinsically the commands for a script to automate the same task. Unfortunately, it ...
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 08/19/2010
The %USERDOMAIN% environment variable and the UserDomain property exposed by Windows Script Host's (WSH's) WshNetwork object aren't helpful in a workgroup-based environment ...
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 07/15/2010
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 05/13/2010
EmptyRecycleBin.vbs is a VBScript script that lets you easily delete all the files in the Recycle Bin. When you need to delete, restore, or inspect individual files in the Recycle ...
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 04/24/2010
In PowerShell, you can use one tool to test whether variables, files, folders, drives, registry keys, functions, certificates, and aliases exist, letting you concentrate on using ...
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 03/18/2010
When you transition from a 32-bit Windows environment to a mixed environment of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, you need to understand processor architectures. You also need to look ...
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 02/19/2010
With this VBScript script, you can quickly check, set, or remove the description for a remote or local computer. You can even use it to check or clear the descriptions for ...
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 01/20/2010
Use VBScript to prevent scripts from running on a specific type of machine.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 12/16/2009
A simple date check loop, demonstrated with an at-logon printer audit, lets you make self-limiting additions to scripts.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 11/28/2009
Passing arguments that need quotes around them into PowerShell scripts isn't always straightforward, but these solutions will help you achieve drag-and-drop simplicity.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 11/06/2009
If you need to retrieve information from an open Internet Explorer (IE) browsing session, try Get-IEUrl.ps1. With this PowerShell script, you can get and save web pages' URLs, ...
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 10/15/2009
If you need to find out why a hard drive is running out of free space, try WinDirStat. This free tool provides multiple views of file-space usage.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 09/08/2009
Trying to find out what application really opens a document for a user on local or remote machine? This code can help.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 08/06/2009
If you occasionally need to export text from .pdf files to .txt files, try pdftotext. This free command-line tool automates the export process.
By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 07/15/2009
SAPIEN Technologies' new free text editor is a better text editor than Notepad. It has complete VBScript highlighting support and is truly portable.