We'll also create simple PowerShell scripts and a fun project that lets you organize all the files in the Downloads folder by their type. To master PowerShell, you must first understand its key ...

The issue turned out to be deceptively simple. While writing my previous column, I ran into a really odd problem: I suddenly found that even the simplest of PowerShell scripts no longer worked.

This folder contains several preexisting PowerShell scripts, but for the sake of demonstration, I am going to convert a really simple PowerShell script named HelloWorld.ps1. So with that said ...

Scripts in PowerShell are basically just text files ... (There are some exceptions to this, but again my goal here is to keep it simple so we’ll stick with this for now.) You can also just ...

This simple Bash script produces the same output as the command ... Bash scripts are typically saved with the .sh extension, and that’s the convention followed here. PowerShell scripts don’t need a ...

Now is as good a time as any to finally upgrade your system to Windows 10, especially since it might be free—and because I found a super-simple PowerShell script that makes it easy to perform an ...

Microsoft’s mighty Windows administration framework gets even better with the help of these resources. Most are free, and the three for-fee tools are well worth the cost. Ah, PowerShell.

PowerShell has made it dead simple to automate all kinds of things. However, its simplicity can be deceiving. PowerShell takes the complexity out of script writing but unless you're writing a ...