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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the path of the executable for running processes. I noticed a process and I am unsure of what it does. How can I use Windows PowerShell to find more information? Look at the path to the executable to find information about a process. If it is legitimate, often the folder ...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to start a process at random intervals. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a rather unusual request. I am testing a new monitoring application, and I need a script that will start processes at random intervals so I can check the effectiveness of the solution. Is this so...
Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to open a Microsoft Word document. How can I open a Word document with Windows PowerShell? Use the New-Object cmdlet: $Filename='C:\HappyBirthdayEd.docx' $Word=NEW-Object –comobject Word.Application $Document=$Word.documents.open($Filename) You can now programmatical...
Summary: Leverage the Office API to manipulate data in Word and Excel with Windows PowerShell. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here today to give Ed the day off. Why? Well, it's his birthday, of course! People worldwide have been sending Ed Happy Birthday wishes. His inbox almost went offline with so many "Happy Birthdays" c...
Summary: Learn to find members of an array with the Get-Member cmdlet in Windows PowerShell. I have an array of numbers: 1,2,3,4,5 that I assigned to variable $a. When I pipe it to Get-Member: $a | gm, all I see are members for int32. How can I find the members of an array by using ...