This simple script tamed my Downloads folder.

We've all been there: We're using code to automate something and send to a specific file, or attempting to relocate a file from one folder to another. We find the file and think it's available to open ...

System administrators and power users utilize Windows PowerShell to perform all sorts of advanced and administrative tasks. With PowerShell, administrators can execute powerful scripting programs or ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

I'm reading a list of files from text file, and some of the filenames have the " character as part of their name. For instance: $xx = Get-Content -Path $list ForEach ...

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...

Managing permissions on files and folders can be an enormous time drain for IT professionals. Users have home folders, departments have proprietary folders, projects have unique folders — the list ...