The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.
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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display network adapter power settings.
(image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to see if my laptop is going to sleep—it keeps dropping off of the wireless network.
(image) Use the Get-NetAdapterPowerManagement Windows PowerShell command ...
Summary: Windows PowerShell MVP, Teresa Wilson, spotlights three Windows PowerShell events.
(image) Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I was talking with Teresa (The Scripting Wife) about some ideas she had for sharing information with IT professionals. We came up with the idea for her to write a blog post once a month called ...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to round numbers to a specific decimal place.
(image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to round a number to a specific number of decimal places, and continue to have a number instead of converting it to a string.
(image) Use the Round static method from the ...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to round numbers.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I think your series about formatting numbers has been pretty interesting. However, everything you have shown has a major problem—and that is that you convert numbers into strings. I would love to be ...
Summary: Learn an easy method to express a percentage in Windows PowerShell.
(image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to express a two-decimal place percentage? For example, I have multiple calculations in a Windows PowerShell script, and I am tired of always dividing two numbers, multiplying &...