Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using a filter hash table to filter the event log with Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. The weather here in Charlotte, North Carolina has turned hot and humid. As a result, the Scripting Wife decided to migrate north for a while. Actually, she is attending a ...
Summary: Open Printer and Devices in Control Panel from within Windows PowerShell. How can I use Windows PowerShell to open Printer and Devices in Control Panel so I don't have to use the mouse? Windows 8 introduced the Show-ControlPanelItem cmdlet, which you can use with a wildcard character: Show-...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to troubleshoot defrag issues in Windows 8.1. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This week, I begin a week-long series about looking at the Windows event and diagnostic logs via Windows PowerShell. I have previously written about this, and you may want ...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to test your virtual hard disks. How can I easily test the virtual hard disks on my Windows 8.1 laptop to ensure that they will work? Get a collection of all .vhd and .vhdx disks, then pipe the resulting objects to the Test-VHD cmdlet: Get-ChildItem -Path E:\vms\ -Recurse -Include *.vh* | ...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about Windows PowerShell and the future of the technology. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Ahhh…the weekend. This morning, I decided (actually, I decided last night by not setting my alarm clock) to sleep in until the sun gently woke me with it’s warm embrace streaming in ...
