Showing archive results for 2015

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to create a scheduled task. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today, it is cold, wet, and rainy—not exactly my favorite combination. In fact, I would rather have snow. At least then there would be an excuse for the dreariness. Oh well. Snow in the dee...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to show all scheduled tasks that are ready to run.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find what scheduled tasks are ready to run on my system?  Use the Get-ScheduledTask cmdlet, pipe the results to the Where-Object cmdlet, and            filter on the stat...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to see the results of scheduled tasks. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is snack time. For me, a perfect snack is a piece of biscotti and a cup of tea. Today, I am having such a snack—the tea is a nice green tea with a bit of jasmine flower in it....

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the status of scheduled tasks.  My laptop is acting strangely. Task Manager shows lots of processes running, but I have disabled everything I can see.            How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine what scheduled tasks are running in the background?  Use the&n...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to unblock files downloaded from the Internet.  I downloaded a module from the Script Center Repository, and when I expanded and copied the files to            my modules folder, I forgot to unblock them. Now every time I start Windows PowerShell, I get error   &nb...