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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to find files that have not been accessed for some time.  Hey, Scripting Guy! On our server, we have tons of files. Unfortunately, many of them haven’t been accessed for years. I know the cost of storage is coming down, but the management overhead and cost ...

Summary: Learn to use Windows PowerShell to count the number of photographs you have on your computer.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to count all the photographs I have on a specific drive?  Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet to find all of the photos, and then pipe the results to the           Measur...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to obtain metadata from photo files.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need some help. I have thousands of photo files on my computer. I need to bring some order to them. I know that I can use Get-ChildItem from Windows PowerShell, and I can find the size of files and names...

Summary:  Learn how to get a directory listing of multiple folders.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to look at the contents of multiple folders at once?  Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet, and specify more than one folder for the path, for example: Get-ChildItem –path c:\fso,c:\music  

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shares a function that gets file metadata, and then he writes the information to a CSV file.  Hey, Scripting Guy! Getting basic file properties such as the file name, the size of a file, and the directory that a file resides in is pretty cool. But when I go into a folder that contains music files, I see...