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PowerShell is more than just scripting and automation. Given the right functions, you can also use it to solve numerical equations -- from the simple to the complex. Here's how.

Page files can greatly affect the performance and recovery of Windows and Windows servers. Here's how to size page files to suit your computing needs.

Using Windows Management Instrumentation makes it easy to pull information about the drives on your system or remote systems. Here's how.

If you want to group parts of your code for debugging purposes or simple readability, the PowerShell ISE has the answer.

Hackers can use tools like BloodHound to visualize the shortest path to owning your domain. But that doesn't mean you can't use it to find and protect your organization's weak spots. Here's how.

PowerShell Pipeline Gathering Installed Software Using PowerShell There's two ways to accomplish this task: the wrong way and the right way. Here's how to do both. By Boe Prox 07/27/2017 ...

PowerShell 3 stretches out the features of older cmdlets. Out-Gridview is one example, which I show off in this week's tip.

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

Unfortunately, IT professionals have to deal with sensitive information all the time. That information could be in the form of passwords, proprietary company information or anything that you'd rather ...

Fun with file and folder attributes, via PowerShell and the DIR command.

One of the things that PowerShell doesn't have is a way to view local accounts on local and remote systems. Fortunately for us, we have a couple of options at our disposal that can get around this to ...