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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to troubleshoot defrag issues in Windows 8.1. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This week, I begin a week-long series about looking at the Windows event and diagnostic logs via Windows PowerShell. I have previously written about this, and you may want ...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using a filter hash table with Windows PowerShell to speed up boot trace parsing.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I don’t get it. You wrote a script yesterday, and said that the performance was bad. You suggested that you could improve the performance, but then you did not do anything about i...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to get boot-up trace events. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This morning I am sipping the last of my English Breakfast tea with a little lemon grass and a crushed cinnamon stick. Not sure how I ran out of English Breakfast tea, but I did. Oh well. I stil...

Summary: Guest blogger, Jonathan Tyler, talks about how to write to Windows event logs by using Windows PowerShell—and avoid errors in doing so. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. While I was at TechEd in New Orleans, I had the chance to talk to Jonathan Tyler. I see him from time-to-time, although he only lives a few hours away fro...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about translating a VBScript script that queries the Windows Event logs directly into Windows PowerShell.    Hey, Scripting Guy! Dude! I have this way cool VBScript script that I use every day to query the event logs on our servers. It receives all of the events and displays it to th...