If you frequently work with the Command Prompt or PowerShell, you may need to copy files from or to an external drive, and many other times, you may need to display the drives within the console ...

Today, we will see how you can generate a list of the disabled features on your Windows 11/10 computer system using Windows PowerShell. To do this, you have to use the Get-WindowsOptionalFeatures ...

Learning about the PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command is a good introduction to the time-savings that Powershell scripting can bring to server admins. The PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command—or, ...

•PowerShell can be a more scalable solution than using the Control Panel to uninstall applications, especially when dealing with multiple machines. • To remove an application using PowerShell, you ...

Recently, I wrote a column about how you can use PowerShell to uninstall an unwanted application. The problem with the technique described in that article is that it can be tough to locate the ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

Command Prompt (CMD) has been around since Windows NT, and almost everyone who uses Windows is familiar with it. It is a ...

PowerShell is Microsoft's scripting language, now in its third iteration. It's an extremely powerful tool to use for automation work, system administration, working remotely on systems, or working on ...

In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...