Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from ...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

Setting up a new Windows 11 machine can be complicated, and when issues arise somewhat frequently, it can waste a lot of time in certain scenarios. It's common these days to have your life based on ...

Have you ever needed to schedule a PowerShell script? While you may not need to execute the script right away, you may have a process that must be done daily, monthly or somewhere in between. Common ...

I use Powershell's "custom-object" command to create custom objects with properties I want to save. But custom-object applies only to one variable. Is it possible to create a custom class, like in ...

If you want to delete or create a scheduled task on Windows 11/10 using Windows PowerShell, this tutorial will help you do that. You do not have to open Task Scheduler to create the scheduled task.

We get it. From the outside, PowerShell can appear to be an incredibly powerful tool that only the most hardened IT pros can wield. But that just is not the case. Petri Paavola and his 20-plus years ...

On Windows 10, the Task Scheduler is a useful tool that has been around for many years, and it provides a friendly graphical interface to create automated routines. When you use this tool, you can ...

There are a few ways that PowerShell can provide some sort of notification method to alert you when something happens such as a script completing or an issue is detected during a query. The most ...

You can wrap an executable file around a PowerShell script (PS1) so that you can distribute the script as an .exe file rather than distributing a “raw” script file. This eliminates the need of ...