Whether you are a technology enthusiast or a professional looking to enhance your scripting skills, we have designed this Windows PowerShell scripting tutorial for beginners, especially for you. So, ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, at least, giving you fingertip access ...

PowerShell scripting doesn't have to haphazard. Here's how to tell PowerShell to build a script from the commands that you have already entered at the command line ...

When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

I recently switched to Mac OS X as my primary desktop operating system after spending over a decade on Linux. Although Apple’s operating system supplies practically all of the command line tools I ...

Learn how to design and build your own interactive menus inside your PowerShell scripts. This will help non-PowerShell users easily navigate and use them.

The first software that I was actually paid to develop was a 2-page shell script that prompted the user for a dozen or so pieces of information, before launching a set of cooperating processes. Those ...