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Summary: The Microsoft Scripting Guys show you how to use Windows PowerShell to determine the reliability of your Windows 7 or Window Server 2008 R2 computer.     Hey, Scripting Guy! Our CIO is a rather strange creature. He seems to go missing for weeks on end, and then suddenly he will appear in the server room, create havoc, and leave....

Summary: The Microsoft Scripting Guys show how to determine service launch order by using Windows PowerShell and WMI in this helpful step-by-step article.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to find out the order in which services start on my computer. To properly shut down a computer, the services should stop in reverse order that they start. I ca...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display service dependencies on Windows for troubleshooting shutdown problems in Windows 7.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem on my Windows 7 PC. It hangs on shutdown from time to time. I have done some searches on the Internet, and it seems other people have reported similar problems. The cause app...

  Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to retrieve the power plan settings for your computer. The Microsoft Scripting Guys show you how.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to have a way to easily retrieve the power plan settings for the active power plan on my computer. I would like to have an easy to read display of the setting name, the allowable ...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create a formatted report from data stored in XML files.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is still dark outside, and the lights of the neighborhood are slowly beginning to come on. It is really humid this morning. I am sitting at the kitchen table with my laptop checking comments that were posted ...