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Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: The Fruity Bouquet of Windows PowerShell Enumerations

(image) Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Our alarm clock died a slow, but rather painless death. All of a sudden, it began to lose track of time. It would forget to wake us up in the morning, and worst of all, it would at times just randomly display time from different time zones and even alternate universes. At last, it was time to ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Using Windows PowerShell 2.0 to Display Color-Coded Output in a Table

  (image)   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Summer has finally hit Charlotte, North Carolina, in full force. It is 87 degrees outside, and the humidity is 78 percent. This makes for a very hot and sticky day. I do not enjoy being hot and sticky, and therefore decided it was the perfect time to spend some time inside writing...