What is PowerShell? Microsoft PowerShell is a powerful administrative tool that can help you automate tasks for your computer and network.

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 ...

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Microsoft Windows PowerShell has been a long time coming. Windows has never enjoyed the powerful shell scripting environments that its Unix rivals have long included. That’s changed now with the ...

One of the last vestiges of the old MS-DOS days, the Command Prompt, is looking like an endangered species. The latest Windows 10 preview build puts the Windows PowerShell, first introduced on Windows ...

On Jan. 17, 2018, Microsoft's Scott Hanselman asked Visual Studio developers if they would like a PowerShell prompt with pre-set PATH and Environment variables baked right into the IDE. They said yes.

Microsoft on Thursday announced the "general availability" commercial release of PowerShell Crescendo. PowerShell Crescendo is a new installable module that's used to wrap various "native" utility ...

A lot of people think that PowerShell is simply a command line language. They believe that the only thing PowerShell can do is output text to a boring console screen. Au contraire, my friend! Since ...

Make sure to save your work on any of the distros you are working on as it will close when you restart the WSL service. You can start WSL again by clicking on the application icon on the Desktop or ...

Malicious programs are constantly finding new ways to harm or damage devices. Seeing these things, it would always be reasonable to get apps in the Appx file format that is used by Universal Windows ...