Showing archive results for October 2015

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to get file system errors on all NTFS volumes.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to check your NTFS volumes for file system errors?  On Windows 10 with Windows PowerShell 5.0, use the Get-Volume cmdlet to retrieve all volumes and           pipe the output to the ...

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about parsing event message strings with Windows PowerShell.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have seen people using different tools to find stuff in strings in Windows PowerShell, but it always looks complicated. Why is that? I thought Windows PowerShell was supposed to make things easier, but this loo...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to filter out duplicate process names.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily get a unique list of processes running on my local computer?  Use Get-Process to retrieve the processes and pipe the output to Get-Unique: Get-Process | Get-Unique

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video to talk about working with strings in Windows PowerShell.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about working with strings—in particular empty or null strings. I talk about the differences between empty, null, and white space in strings an...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display the number of minutes in a day.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily display how many minutes are in a day?  Create a timespan equal to one day, and then select the total minutes from it: (New-TimeSpan -Days 1).totalminutes