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Summary: In this episode, superhero BATCHman foils the fowl villain Ping Win and repairs the registry.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today is Episode 5 of the BATCHman series by Sean Kearney. Note   You can read all gripping, engaging, informative, and downright funny BATCHman episodes. Whenever trouble happens in system...

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: The Microsoft Scripting Guys describe how to reuse Windows PowerShell code to simplify script writing and retrieve reliability information.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I really enjoy reading your stuff. It is generally both fun and informative. The thing I appreciate the most is that your writing does not read like standard product documen...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to check for WMI dependencies on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I am very excited about using the WMI reliability classes for monitoring purposes. As you mentioned in your previous articles, it is not automatically enabled on Windows Server 2008 R2. This means that it will ca...

  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I was sitting in the kitchen waiting for my pot of English Breakfast tea to steep when my mind began to wander back over the week that was nearly completed. One of these days I will write a script to count the number of words in all the documents in a folder. That suggestion is actually up on the whit...