Recently someone asked me on Twitter about a way to retrieve the command history from another user's PowerShell session. That's a great question and I think I know where the user is coming from but ...

The upcoming PowerToys 0.77 update should introduce a new tool to help you use PowerShell. It will suggest a package to install upon detecting a missing component when trying to execute a command.

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 ...

In which Adam demonstrates the truth in the old PowerShell adage: "The more you can limit the number of objects returned to the pipeline, the faster you code will run." Lots of commands will return ...

Over the last few years, I have created a vast library of PowerShell scripts that I use to keep my servers healthy. These scripts do everything from monitoring disk health to helping me to reclaim ...

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 ...

Windows 8.1 brought a few changes to the handy Win+X menu, including a new Shut Down option and the addition of PowerShell shortcuts. If you're more of a command prompt user, though, you can bring the ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...