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Summary: June Blender explains Doug Finke's multiplication and formatting trick. Today...the task. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today, Honorary Scripting Guy, June Blender, examines a multiplication and formatting trick that Doug Finke posted on the PowerShell Facebook page. I've broken this article into two parts: Part 1:...

Summary: Use the Trim() method to remove extraneous space from a String object.  Is there an easy way to drop all spaces that are before or after a string in Windows PowerShell?  Use the Trim() method to remove all spaces before and after a string from the output, for example: $Something='  &nb...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to provide a GUI input and build a custom URL for Internet Explorer. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, here to share a little fun that I have enjoyed on the client site. I say it was fun because, to be quite honest, the problem really wasn't that challenging, but to make the solution seamless to an end user ...

Summary: Find events from objects by using Windows PowerShell.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find what events are offered by a process?  Use Get-Process to retrieve an instance of the process, pipe the results to Get-Member,            and specify a MemberType Event: notepad Ge...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about playing with processes and events in Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This morning I woke up and I had an idea. This happens to me sometimes. Not often. But occasionally. And here it was. I could not get it out of my mind... Can I use an event from a specific p...