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Adding Custom Menu Items to the Windows PowerShell ISE

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson provides step-by-step instructions for adding custom menu items to the Windows PowerShell ISE.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. A long long long long time ago in a far far far far away land, I used to write code in a language called WordBasic. Using Word Basic I could completely automate...

Using Windows PowerShell to Determine Service Launch Order

Summary: The Microsoft Scripting Guys show how to determine service launch order by using Windows PowerShell and WMI in this helpful step-by-step article.   (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to find out the order in which services start on my computer. To properly shut down a computer, the services should stop in reverse order that ...