You can use the GetBIOS PowerShell module to retrieve settings from various BIOS manufacturers on either a local or remote computer. This post will show you how to access computer BIOS settings using ...

If you own a Windows 11/10 PC, you might have installed many programs over time but it’s a little bit tricky to remember all of them. In this post, we will show you how to get the list of all ...

Learning about the PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command is a good introduction to the time-savings that Powershell scripting can bring to server admins. The PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command—or, ...

Microsoft replaced the standard command prompt with Windows PowerShell — a much more powerful CLI-based tool that can be used for scripting and automating tasks. Along with automating complex or ...

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here’s a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

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 ...

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 ...