Showing archive results for November 2011

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find all user profiles on a computer, and to display the date when each profile was last used.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I would like to find a good way to see which profiles exist on my laptop. I found a Hey, Scripting Guy! post to do this, but it uses VBScript. Can this be done using Windows PowerS...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson teaches how to use Windows PowerShell to troubleshoot Microsoft Outlook problems.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem with Microsoft Outlook on my laptop. It seems that it goes to sleep or something. I will be working, go to check my email, and nothing appears. But if I look at my Windows 7 mobile ...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to pause a script and wait for another process to exit before continuing. Hey, Scripting Guy! I am attempting to use Windows PowerShell to shut down an application, but the application is rather complicated. I need to stop one process, and wait for that process to complete before starting the second pr...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shares two powerful tricks for finding Windows PowerShell scripts.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I am wondering if you have any cool ways to help me find the scripts I have written. I have quite a few scripts in my scripts folder, but opening Windows Explorer and searching through them is slow, cumbersome, an...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to automatically create a CSV file.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I am about finished playing around with CSV files for the time being. I do not always use the ConvertTo-CSV or the Export-CSV cmdlet. There are times that I write code and create my own CSV file from scratch. An example of...