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Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to easily convert decimal to binary and back, and simplify custom subnet mask calculations.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today is 63. Yep, that is right, today is 63. That is what you get when you see 11 11 11 represented as binary. This appears here.   PS C:\> 1+2+4+8+16+32 63...

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...