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Use PowerShell and WMI to Explore Threads

December 10, 2014 Dec 10, 2014 12/10/14
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell and WMI to explore processes and threads.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to find information about threads that are related to a specific process. I am wondering how I can do this by using Windows PowerShell. Can you help me? —CP  Hello CP, Microsoft...

Use PowerShell to Get BIOS Information on Remote Servers

December 9, 2014 Dec 9, 2014 12/9/14
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to retrieve BIOS information from remote servers.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I really hope you can help me. I need to get a list of basic BIOS information from our servers. All of the servers that I need are listed in a single organizational unit (OU) in Active ...

Use PowerShell to Repeatedly Terminate Specific Processes

September 19, 2014 Sep 19, 2014 09/19/14
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to terminate processes that start at random times.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a question that I hope you can answer. It seems that there are several processes that keep starting on my computer running Windows 8.1. That eat up lots of resources, and I ...

Use PowerShell to Monitor Specific Process Creation

September 18, 2014 Sep 18, 2014 09/18/14
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to monitor for the creation of specific processes. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This morning it is beginning to look like autumn. Who knows, it may become really hot and humid over the weekend, but today I can delude myself into hearing the ...

Why Are All These Services Starting?

September 12, 2014 Sep 12, 2014 09/12/14
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using WMI to find out how services start.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I was looking at the processes on my workstation, and I see lots of things running. I suspect many of these are actually services. But I am wondering how I can use Windows PowerShell to find services that start ...