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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to determine who has permissions to a shared folder. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is finally the weekend here in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States. It has seemed like a rather long week, in part due to several meetings, plus I took ...

Summary: Learn how to use a powerful Windows PowerShell cmdlet to count words and lines in files, or to count files.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. The weekend is halfway over in Charlotte, North Carolina. For my friends in Australia, the weekend is already over, and they are on their way to work. Of course they get to start their w...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson illustrates how to compare two folders by using Windows PowerShell.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is an absolutely beautiful day in Charlotte, North Carolina. The early morning rain gave way to a colorful rainbow. My manager bought me a new laptop, and I have been busy working on it; i...

Summary: The Scripting Wife learns how to unblock files that are downloaded from the Internet by using Windows PowerShell and a Sysinternals tool. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. It is two days until the 2011 Scripting Games kick off. Things are quiet right now, and I am enjoying a chance to catch my breath and to relax. I am thinking abo...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to determine the amount of fragmentation of your hard disk drives.   Hey, Scripting Guy! One of the things that annoys me is that the “new” defragmenter program in Windows 7 does not return any information. I guess from a user standpoint, it is OK—and it runs as a service, and tha...