Questions tagged [powershell]
Windows PowerShell is a command line shell and scripting language for Windows that supersedes the CMD.exe shell and batch language. PowerShell is also an automation engine for Windows that provides functionality similar to Windows Script Host and VBScript.
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Powershell string concatenation of expressions
I'm using a ternary expression as shown in this example:
$a = 1
$x = if ($a -eq 1) { "one" } else {"not one" }
$t = "The answer is: " + $x
write-host $t
This works as I would expect. What I would ...
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PowerShell 5.0 Get-Help -ShowWindow doesn't display detailed parameters description
In PowerShell 3.0 and 4.0 when running:
Get-Help Get-Service -ShowWindow
it displays new window with full description of GetService command (with detailed parameters description). When running the ...
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PowerShell get TotalPhysicalMemory (RAM) without decimals
I'm writing a powershell script to inventory some info about computers (CPU, RAM, HDD, etc...). Everything is working quite well, but I'm stuck at getting the right output for the amount of RAM.
Here ...
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Windows Activation Powershell Script
I'm looking for a method to automate activation Windows 7 machines through PowerShell. We get approximately 50 computers a month and it's slowly increasing, so manual activation is no longer possible ...
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How do I open a command prompt as a regular user (not an adminstrator)?
I'm trying to fire up a regular command prompt to test the limitations of certain commands. However, whenever I open the Command Prompt from the start menu, it automatically runs as Administrator. If ...
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Powershell script to open a number of files located inside subdirectories
How does one open (say, using notepad.exe) multiple files ending in _dc.txt, each one of which is located in a number of subdirectories of C:\Data\Test?
My script below gets stuck on -Recurse, with ...
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Listing Mapped Drives and Username Powershell Script
It's been a little while since I've touched PowerShell so struggling to get this working as I expect.
$computerlist = Get-Content H:\MappedDrive\ListOfMachines.txt
ForEach ($computer in $...
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Powershell LastWriteTime is incorrect
I am running the following script to create directories based on the first 9 characters in the filenames in the directory and then moving te files into these directories based on their filenames.
dir ...
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Use PowerShell to interpret registry values
Consider the following key, as an example
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\shell\open\command
and its (Default) value
%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1
This value determines what will happen when you ...
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PowerShell: create a new Active Directory user with password as a secure string
Having some trouble creating a command to create a new user in PowerShell, the code I'm using is:
PS C:\Users\Nicky> New-ADUser -Name johnd -GivenName John -Surname Doe -DisplayName John Doe $...
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Command Line Parameters in Powershell
I am using a program called sonar-runner that you execute from the commandline, and you can pass optional parameters. For example in the normal windows commandline tool a call may look something like:
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PowerShell periodically hangs after any command
My PowerShell shell sometimes hangs after any command - such as ls. Also, after I force close the window, when I open another shell window, it shows the following error:
Windows PowerShell
Copyright (...
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Running powershell script through Windows Task Scheduler
I'm trying to run a simple PS1 powershell script from the Task Scheduler. The task's Actions settings are Program: powershell and Add arguments: -executionpolicy bypass -file C:\Users\Robin\Documents\...
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PowerShell touch all files newer than
I have found the following question on ServerFault:
Windows recursive touch command
Which partially answers my question with this answer:
Windows recursive touch command
However, I would like to ...
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Get another local users home directory
I am trying to automate the copying of profile data from one user account to another. This other user account is being created in a PowerShell script from an Administrator account. I am copying over ...
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Using PowerShell to replace individual bytes in a document
We're in the process of converting an HTML help system to a SharePoint document library. We have about 3000 individual HTML documents that we're converting to Word. About 20% of the documents include ...
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Windows 8 power-shell "update-help" is failing. Does anyone know how to fix it?
Windows 8 includes PowerShell 3 out of the box, but not the help.
To get the help you run PowerShell as administrator and type "update-help". I get this error:
> update-help
update-help : Failed ...
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In Power SHell set alias cp to cp -v
I have cp for power shell. But I want to use cp in verbose mode without writing -v. So cp should be aliased to "cp -v" command. How to alias cp to "cp -v" in power shell?
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Querying against Active Directory
I'm the "script guy" at my work, which is a blessing and a curse... I've been tasked with generating a script of:
Can you create a script to pull all users that have a proxy address
that is not ...
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problem powershell cant access to a network share
I use PowerShell to check if any ports are open on my computers. I have eight Windows Server 2008 R2 machines and run the following script:
$localhost = get-content env:computername
foreach($port in ...
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Automatically open a PowerShell session on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Core?
I have a virtual server running with Hyper-v r2 sp1 (standalone product). I imagine it applies also to W2K8 Core install.
When I connect to the remote desktop, both sconfig.cmd and cmd.exe are ...
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How do I create a PowerShell alias (or function) that contains an option?
I'm learning PowerShell, so I'm doing stuff like this a lot:
Get-Command | Out-String -Stream | ss child
(ss is an alias for select-string).
I'm getting tired of typing Out-string -Stream all the ...
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Running a powershell script using a batch file (.bat)
Currently this is my path for launching VMware vSphere PowerCLI command prompt. I wish to run my sample.ps1 script automatically using a batch file. How can I incoporate sample.ps1 into this path and ...
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PowerShell - environment vars - differentiating between user and system vars
How can I display environment variables in PowerShell, and be able to distinguish between which ones are "user" vars and which ones are "system" vars?
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How can I easily place multiple powershell windows on login?
I like to have a 2x2 grid of powershell windows open on my alternate monitor, but I'd prefer not to have to open and resize each one by hand. I can set the window size (through (Get-Host).UI.RawUI....
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In Powershell on Windows7, how do I automatically set aliases (or run scripts) when powershell loads?
I have created a powershell cmdlet and assigned it to an Alias. How do I do this automatically every time powershell launches? (i.e. so I don't have to re-assign the alias every time)
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Count matches from robocopy output in powershell
I have the following robocopy command line:
robocopy $drv "B:\Blending Produções - Backup\Blending Produções - Tyrone Hirt - BC" /e /NJH /NDL /NC /BYTES /MT:4 /l /xd /A-:SH $IgnorarPastas /...
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Switching 'net' Command Output Language in Windows 11
Main Question (command language output)
How can I convert the output or account/group names to English?
Additional bonus related questions
Why are there "aliases" mentioned in the net ...
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Create a Symbolic Link from Windows to WSL with a Local Admin Account
I am trying to share a config file between windows and wsl/linux.
The file is in wsl/linux and I want to link to it from windows.
This is the command I am trying with a local admin account:
New-Item -...
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I accidentally activated this history search feature in powershell core. What is it called?
I have a rather unusual request - I accidentally activated this feature with my laptop keyboard:
It shows all previous commands that match my command prompt. It is very useful, but it appears to be ...
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ssh_config matching rules
I am trying to set up connection to [email protected] via powershell terminal (with config located in .ssh\config) without proxy, however, I want to keep being able to connect to ...
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Obtaining RAM usage per logon session in PowerShell
I want to get the memory used per session through a PowerShell function. I am only interested in disconnected sessions. In the task manager, I can see the memory used per sessionID:
I tried to obtain ...
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List of CDN URL's used for Winget
I am currently trying to roll Microsoft Store app (new) via Intune, but it looks like some of the CDN URLs are being blocked by our web filtering software (Forcepoint)
I would like to know where ...
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Remove all pinned apps in start menu using power shell
Im making a script that cleans a fresh install of windows 11 to my liking. Does anybody know of a way to unpin all apps in start menu using PowerShell? I have found scripts but those scripts are name ...
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Why doesn't the login screen show a created New-LocalUser or the Administrator account?
Login is with a pin code and right clicking on cmd allows running in an elevated mode as Administrator so that new accounts can be created:
adding a user:
PS C:\Windows\System32>
PS C:\Windows\...
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Capture batch output and save it in TXT File as log
I'm running powershell script with batch file.
My requirement is:-
display the output in batch cmd and at the same time save output in TXT file. Note, as of now output getting saved in txt file but ...
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How to deploy a powershell-installer via the intune-portal?
I've got the powershell install script for the windows command-liner installer Scoop which is called: install.ps1. After downloading the script with
irm get.scoop.sh -outfile 'install.ps1'
I want to ...
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Call current date&time into dynamic variable in Powershell
I need to create some logs that contain the current time
I don't want to repeatedly call the Get-Date cmdlet
How can I simply set a dynamic variable?
I've tried this:
$CurrentTime=(Get-Date -Format &...
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What is the correct usage of the scp command in Powershell?
I am trying to retrieve some data from a remote directory (with an IP address) using the scp command in Windows Powershell. However, when I enter the command
scp -r root@<remote IP>:<remote ...
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What does the "usage" mean in the "Get-PhysicalDisk" results?
The document for Get-PhysicalDisk simply listed the possible options for the Usage parameter. Does anyone know how those values are defined?
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PowerShell : Watch a folder and when file created, send it by mail
I would like to create a script watching a specific folder in my computer, and if a new file is created, send this file by email. What I found :
$action = {
$WatchFolder = "C:\Users\..."
$To ...
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how to get the pajama effect with New-Object -com Excel.Application
Does anyone know how to get this effect? Or is there a specific function for it?
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PowerShell, how to disable Xbox Game Bar?
I really need to disable the Xbox Game Bar with PowerShell. There are many articles on how to delete/uninstall the Xbox Game Bar but that does not work for me as I need this inside Windows Sandbox (...
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PowerShell, add the Recycle Bin to Quick access
I would very much like to add the "Recycle Bin" to the "Quick access" area of File Explorer using PowerShell (as this is a standard thing that I like to have on all new systems). ...
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position the form to the far right Windows.Forms
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Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing
[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::EnableVisualStyles()
$form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
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Is it possible to log powershell scripts which executed on my computer?
Title says it all. I already turned on logging via regedit but I want something more stable. I would like to see every commands which executed on powershell to be in my event log just like Sysmon.
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Cannot catch output of programme. No one of streams redirection works
I would like to save the result of analysis of a number of nested sampling log files. I analyse it the next way:
applauncher NSLogAnalyser -noposterior -N 76 -log .\...
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PowerShell How to Get File Owner/Author?
Below script retrieve specific file types from the I: drive and outputting specific file properties to a delimited CSV file. How to return file owner and authors? Any help is very much appreciated.
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Windows 11 pro - using task scheduler to send an email on shutdown?
How can I configure Windows 11 pro to send an email immediately prior to shutdown?
I've written a simple powershell script to send an email (this works fine) but I'm having trouble persuading the task ...
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List all user accounts with an active presence on the local device
I need a way in PowerShell (ideally PS2.0+) to list all user accounts on a local system where a user has a local presence, but where users may not be local users per se. That is to say that the device ...
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