As a Windows 11 user, there might be times when you want to execute a Command Prompt action directly in a specific folder, ...

Windows Terminal is a consolidation of various command-line utilities such as Windows PowerShell, PowerShell, Command Prompt, etc. It lets you use more than one command-line utility at a time from a ...

In this article, we cover three of them – PowerShell, Command Prompt, and Windows Terminal — explaining how they differ from each other and when they should be used. The operating system of your ...

In which Adam demonstrates the truth in the old PowerShell adage: "The more you can limit the number of objects returned to the pipeline, the faster you code will run." Lots of commands will return ...

Don’t copy and paste the same code over and over again. Instead, create a PowerShell function and save yourself time.

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 ...

When writing PowerShell scripts, in a perfect world, we'd all just use cmdlets and functions. After all, the batch file days are behind us! Unfortunately, that's not always possible or even the best ...

From checking systems to see if security patches are installed to monitoring Windows Server Backup attempts, PowerShell scripts can make tedious IT administrative tasks quick and easy. I’ve written a ...

PowerShell 7 is here and there's a lot to get excited about for IT pros, even if your experience with the automation tool is limited. Redmond: How much of an improvement is PowerShell 7 over the ...

You can open Command Prompt by right-clicking the Start icon. Other ways to open Command Prompt include through the Start Menu and desktop search. The most recent ...

Most of us have dealt with hardware that stays in service well past its planned end-of-life date or that, for reasons of budget and bureaucracy, doesn’t even make it into service until well into its ...