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This is part 5 of our mini-series about the awesome and free “ImportExcel” PowerShell module by Doug Finke. Make sure you install the module before...

Checking Website Availability with a PowerShell Function In the previous example we created a small PowerShell function that checks web site...

The most widely known PowerShell hosts are certainly powershell.exe and powershell_ise.exe because they ship out-of-the-box. However, there can be...

In the previous tip we used an old COM technique to display a pop-up box with a built-in timeout. That worked pretty well except that the dialog box...

Why Some Web Requests Fail in PowerShell but Work in a Browser Sometimes, web requests that work fine in a browser do not seem to work well in...

In the previous tip we looked at the FileSystemWatcher object and how it can monitor folders for changes. To not miss any changes, however, an...

Each PowerShell host running PowerShell 5 or better opens a “named pipe” that you can detect. The code below identifies these named pipes and...

Rather than calling functions recursively, you may at times want to use a Queue object that you can load with fresh tasks while you are unloading...

Here is a PowerShell function called Lock-Screen that can lock the screen and prohibit user interaction. There can be a custom message, and the...

Why Encode PowerShell Code? Encoding PowerShell code is a great way to run PowerShell code outside the PowerShell environment, i.e. in batch files....

Why Some Registry Keys Can't Be Deleted in PowerShell Deleting registry keys is typically trivial and can be done with Remove-Item. However, every...

PowerShell can split large files in multiple smaller parts, for example to transfer them as email attachments. Today, we focus on splitting files....