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An automated series of instructions carried out in a specific order, such as a Windows script created to launch a specific program on startup.

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How to set the local user account photo with PowerShell?

I want to set the local account photo (the image that shows up in the start menu and above the password prompt when logging in) using PowerShell and an image saved in a certain location. the same as ...
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Is it possible to reboot from within Windows to another installed Windows version?

My blind friend has to use both Windows 7 and Windows 10. Her trusted old external audio interface does not have drivers for Windows 10, so she uses Windows 7 for work when she records cassettes to ...
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A script to turn on focus assist for specific duration?

I am looking for a script/application for Task Scheduler on my Windows 11 to turn on focus assist for specific duration (50 mins for example). I have Power Automate & Task Scheduler on my Windows ...
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How can I obtain the names of the Windows lockscreen "Spotlight" locations?

I already have a little batch file that I run every so often when I see a photo I like on the Windows lockscreen, but it would be nice to be able to remember where it was taken (you know how in the ...
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for loop through all folders and execute vbs issue

i trying to code a script where it loop through all folders including subfolders however i encounter some errors. It run all *.vbs instead of only Installation.vbs. In my root folder, i have a folder ...
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How can I dynamically hide and unhide the taskbar?

I want to be able to have my taskbar auto-hide when I'm focused on my desktop instead of any windows. I should be able to still hover my mouse down at the bottom to reveal the taskbar, but I just want ...
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How to Pin to Bottom/Desktop UWP Application Using AHK Windows 10

I'm aware of using setParent from DLL in Windows and I can pin Win32 application on Windows already with this script #o:: Current := WinExist("A") ;ParentID := WinExist("ahk_exe ...
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How to Select Highest Value Folder Name in Powershell Using Wildcards?

I'm writing a script to kill and restart Google Drive for desktop. I also need it to account for new versions. On my test machine, the executable was stored in: C:\Program Files\Google\Drive File ...
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How to make apache service run continuously from script file from docker?

I am trying to run apache2 service from .sh script from dockerfile. The 'sh' script contains 3 executable commands which is presented as below: #!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=:0.0 echo "pvw ...
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How to check if process is running properly in Powershell?

I'm writing some powershell to check if the Google Drive for Desktop process is running. If it is, I need to stop it and restart it. I'm having trouble understanding how to avoid throwing errors if ...
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CLI script works. Alias script broke. Corrective action is?

This CLI (Command Line Interface) script works. This script is 688 characters with spaces. This script shows: directories, files, totals in current directory and recursive directories (down the file/...
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Why is change directory not working when SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION is used

I have an existing windows batch script (named as test1.bat) as below : @echo off SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION set nop=4 for /l %%z in (1, 1, %nop%) do ( set x=%%z echo !x! ) chdir /d D:\app\ ...
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How to run a PowerShell script at logon for all (current and future) users with elevated permissions without UAC

I'm building a login script for our company. Some of the things it will do include installing printers, mapping drives, setting wallpapers, etc. Many of these things will require elevated permissions....
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How to automate sftp and remote shell calls?

I am on windows and I have remote linux server. I do not have admin access to neither of them. I have following set of steps/commands cp C:/ ... /file.war C:/temp/update/file.war sftp server write ...
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How to install outdated packages using chocolatey

#step 1) Installing Chocolatey when needed if (-not (Test-Path -Path "$env:ProgramData\Chocolatey\choco.exe" -PathType Leaf)) { # from https://chocolatey.org/install Set-...
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PowerShell Modules in System32 - Are these standard defaults?

I have been experimenting with PowerShell and noticed there are a ton of modules in C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules Here's a list of everything in that folder: AppBackgroundTask ...
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Merging switch config in Notepad ++ Tips

The document and config is much bigger than this but for example.. I have the config all documented out in excel and I want an easy way to transfer this config to the switch without going back and ...
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PowerShell - Close running script with another script

I have 3 PS Scripts, STOP.ps1, FORM.ps1 and ENABLE.ps1. ENABLE.ps1 will create a task in task scheduler that opens the FORM.ps1 script every hour. Once the FORM gets opened, there is a button to close ...
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Modify user in openLdap via bash script

Can you please help me put this command into if statement (bash scripting): $ ldapmodify -D -h password: [enter password] dn: cn=vipb,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com changetype: modify add: memberUid ...
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PowerShell - Allow non-admin users to disable/enable Tasks

I have a task that triggers every hour, and runs a powershell script. I am supposed to deploy this script along with the task on workstations, where all users are non-admin users, however, the users ...
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How to run a script when the screen is turned off for being idle?

just wondering whether its possible to run a script when Windows turns the screen off after a period of inactivity (not sleep or hibernate but just switching off the screen) as well as when the user ...
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does robocopy kill files while mirroring if read error?

my params is /mir /copyall /dcopy:t /z /v /tee /eta /unilog+ /mt:32 /r:3 /w:30 for example, some copying finishes ok so, is read error "equal" no-file? will robocopy delete file at ...
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How do I copy the IPv4 IP Address from ipconfig to clipboard?

I want to get the ipv4 192.168.1.* from the ipconfig. I'm learning scripting and want to make an output value message box that displays the ip and copies it to clipboard. I have already done this by ...
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PowerShell script to move files in a new directory and rename them - how to avoid duplicate collision?

The situation is as follows. I have a folder where files are dumped on a daily basis (mostly PDF). I am trying to write a script that does the following: Go through all the files in the folder and ...
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Bulk-convert shortcuts to target

(Windows10) Sometimes I need to create a subset of a master photos folder, but I am trying to be cute and save space by creating the SUBSETFOLDER somewhere, then selecting the pictures I want, right-...
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How to reassign the "Sign out" shortcut on Windows?

I often find myself mistyping the "Sleep" shortcut as "Sign out". So I want to disable the shortcut for it, i.e. Win+XUI: And reassign it to Win+XUO, how to achieve this using ...
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AutoHotKey - switch statement with a series of InStr functions

I have created an AutoHotKey script with a bunch of if functions that rely on InStr, similarly as in the example below, and it already does what I want. Is it possible, though, to convert it to a ...
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read in Bash and ZSH

I'm observing differences between zsh and bash when using read on macOS. With bash this script echo "characters" | while IFS= read -d '' -n 1 a; do printf %s "$a-"; done Produces ...
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Do I have to put `SetTitleMatchMode` on top of the script?

Sample script: #NoEnv #Warn #SingleInstance Force #IfWinActive Foo ahk_exe foo.exe !A::Send Foo SetTitleMatchMode Regex #IfWinActive Bar$ ahk_exe bar.exe !A::Send Bar When running it, it ...
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Get DisplayName of domain users who are members of local groups

I have a script which lists all local groups and their members and give CSV output. I modified script to get displayName property of domain user members of local groups (Not domain groups not local ...
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How to resolve a hotkey conflict?

I bound Alt+Space to an action, for example: !Space::Send, Foo Now how to trigger the original Alt+Space's action (as shown in the image below) through code?
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Why Power Automate do not run my script?

I use Power Automate (not desktop version). My flow seems simple: Every weeks Copy file (From folder A to folder B in the same SharePoint). Replace existing file. Run a script in the file (removes ...
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Start programme on startup, but only when on laptop power

I have a programme called rainmeter which displays the time and date the second monitor i have plugged into my laptop which currently just runs on startup, but when I unplug my laptop and go to uni ...
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How to trigger an action if there's only one key being pressed?

Here's my current script: Shift::Send ^{Space} It doesn't only trigger ^{Space} on pressing Shift alone, it also triggers on Alt+Shift (just these two keys) and Ctrl+Shift (just these two keys) if ...
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how to extract strings from text file using regexp or powershell?

Having a text file with <td><tr>id"2222"</td></tr><td><tr>id"3333"</td></tr> etc I would want to extract every string that is ...
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Where am I going wrong with foreach when i try to get my script to run against each individual string in my results?

I have a Users.log file that lists the following information pertaining to Usernames, group memberships and assigned server paths extracted from AD: RandomUser01,RandomGroup01_654321_098765,\\server\...
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How to read excel using Powershell

How to extract data from excel such that in first column having the details of machine and in second column having multiple user name and it read excel like it will delete all users from column 2 ...
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Execute powershell script with different credentials

I am trying to write a script, which asks for credentials via the "Get-Credential" cmdlet and then executes the logic part with the given credentials. I know I could write a second script ...
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Powershell script to delete multiple user profile on multiple server

Showing error that "remove-localUser" is not recognised as the name of cmdlet.... $hostdetail = Import-CSV C:\Users\jj\Desktop\Test\hosts.csv ForEach ($item in $hostdetail) { $hostname = $($...
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How to fetch the name of all user on remote server which is present at 'C:\user' folder and write that name into Excel file [duplicate]

I am trying to get the name of all users of multiple server through powershell and than transfer it to excel file but I only got the name of user in txt file and unable to copy it to excel. Foreach($...
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Script won't for more than one group when looking at results of whoami command

Trying to setup IF/ELSE on a script whereby it checks for two conditions to be met before the script runs: Check if the following file exists on the desktop. ($FileExists) Check if the user is a ...
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How can I parse the text from these results into parameters for a separate script?

I need to extract client_TargetText and AnotherTargetText_110953_140521 from the results I get when running the whoami /groups command: Powershell Results: Group Name ...
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script that will monitor changes in at least 2 files/directories and execute a third script only when both are modified

I have two sensors that each create an entry in a text file when triggered. Now I need something to monitor these two files (i can also put them in 2 directories each if that helps in any way) and ...
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Can I write a script that automatically toggles my Wifi band (2.4 or 5 Ghz) based on available networks?

I have a 15" Surfacebook2 (with fully updated Windows 10 as of 7/25/2021). The network card doesn't allow you to "prefer" a band...it just has "auto", "2.4 Ghz only" ...
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Run .cmd file every x minutes when app is being used?

I'm trying to find a way to incrementally back-up a folder every 15 minutes, but only if VS Code has been used/in focus since the last time it was backed up. Does anyone have an idea for how I could ...
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Speedtest Ookla No Timestamp in CSV output

So when running the official speedtest client from Ookla and outputting to a CSV file, I've noticed the output has no timestamp field. The JSON does, but I'm not particularly savvy with jq and trying ...
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BASH - How to combine data from 2 files

I have 2 files with the following data file1: datapoint1name##datapoint1name datapoint1name.PercentUtilization= datapoint2name##datapoint2name datapoint2name.PercentUtilization= datapoint3name##...
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Decoding a batch script which uses FFMPEG, EXIFTOOLS and EXIV2 to create VR180 and VR360 panorama images like Google Cardboard

I am struggling to figure out 2 things: Why this script is completely invisible to google How such script works (much more important than point 1...) To better study the script, I instrumented it ...
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if statement - simple bash scripting

I am working on a simple script that checks if there is .vimrc file and what is configured in that file: if [ "$(ls -a /root | grep .vimrc)" = ".vimrc" ]; then echo "...
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ROBOCOPY command gives me error if owner is set to group instead of user

I want to copy folder structure with permissions using this command: ROBOCOPY "source" "destination" /E /copy:DATSO /NP /MT. It works only if source folder is owned by the user ...
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