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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows four ways to kill a process by using Windows PowerShell and WMI.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been playing around with your scripts that explore WMI methods and WMI writable properties, but I am having problems calling the WMI methods. Can you help me? —ET   Hello ET, Microsoft Script...

Summary: Guest Blogger Mark Schill discusses PowerShellGroup.Org and starting a user group.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Our guest blogger today is Mark Schill. Mark is an IT veteran who for 13 years has specialized in Windows Server and Citrix technologies. Mark started scripting with a Y2K project that required the creation of t...

Summary: In today’s blog post, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson relates practical tips for starting and running a Windows PowerShell user group.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today, I am going to do something a little different. I asked some people to provide their suggestions for starting a Windows PowerShell user group. I ...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to search a folder for matching strings and to open them automatically in Notepad.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been enjoying using the Select-String cmdlet, but I have a question. When I use Select-String, it lists the file that it finds the match in, but I have to copy and paste from there in orde...

Summary: Learn how to use a Windows PowerShell command to search easily for information in a collection of files.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to parse multiple files for text that are in a single folder. I hate to have to write a script for such a common task, but I am afraid I will have to do so. Can you help me? —SH   ...