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Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to automate troubleshooting of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to perform troubleshooting tasks on my Windows 7 desktop computer, but I do not want to sit and answer a bunch of questions. I was intrigued by yesterday’s blog post about using the tr...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to simplify troubleshooting your Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 computers.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I was recently reading something about using the Windows PowerShell troubleshooting packs that are available in Windows 7. How can I leverage this information? —SW Hello SW, Microsoft Script...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to create a custom file extension to store code snippets. Weekend Scripter: Creating a .snip file type Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. After I created the Get-CodeSnippet function yesterday, I decided that it might be useful to have my own file extension to keep track of code snippets. The re...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to export performance counter sets to simplify analysis and tuning. Hey, Scripting Guy! I think that using Windows PowerShell to parse performance counter stuff is pretty cool. However, as much as I am a command line person, there are times when I need to be able to use the GUI. For example, often I nee...

Summary: Learn how to use the Import-Counter cmdlet in Windows PowerShell to parse saved performance counter log files. Hey, Scripting Guy! We have configured a series of custom performance monitor logs that run as scheduled tasks and collect monitoring information. The problem is that I never seem to have time to run Performance Monitor to review...