12/04/2020

Run As Administrator

Today we continue our series that answers common questions, or questions that have been asked about/of PowerShell. Today we are talking about Run As Administrator. What […]
12/04/2020

Move Files to Unknown Directory

I have text files in C:\scripts\test. I want to move them into a new directory that is somewhere inside C:\scripts\plots\blob\ inside another directory. Is this possible with PowerShell?
12/02/2020

Gathering CPU Information from the local machine

Maybe we need to know the current-voltage or the current clock speed. We can find both from the original command. Using $cpu.CurrentClockSpeed gives us the clock speed of the processor as we ran the initial command and not what it shows currently. $cpu.CurrentVoltage will give us just that, the current-voltage being used by the processor at the time of the initial command being run.
12/02/2020

Rename Files With PowerShell

he first line tells PowerShell that the variable $files is going to host the list of files that we need to loop through. The next line begins to define the foreach statement by saying for each $file in $files.
12/01/2020

Query Windows Device for Memory Statistics

To start resolving this we will create a new variable and filter out some of the data from the $RAM variable. To do that we use [math]::Round which tells PowerShell that we are asking it to, one, do math. Two, round the data in the following brackets. We then take the $RAM variable and Dot(.) source it for the TotalVisibleMemorySize, and do it all down to the 1MB size.
12/01/2020

Gathering Local System Information

Using Powershell to gather system information within seconds and output to console, Out-GridView, or to a variable, text file, or XLSX file...