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Identifying a Process by Window Title It isn't always easy to pick the right process because the process ID or process name may not be known or ambiguous. If the process has a window and you can see the window title, all you need to do is search for a keyword in that...

Understanding the Limitation of Hash Tables Compared to Switch Statements In the previous tip, you used a hash table to translate input values. However, unlike Switch-statements, Hash Tables have no "default" so all values need to be present in the hash table. Check...

Did you notice that Dir, ls or Get-ChildItem do not return hidden files? Use the -Force Parameter to Reveal Hidden Files To see hidden files, you need to specify the -force parameter: Dir $env:windir -force Filter to Show Only Hidden Files But what if you just wanted...

Sometimes, you may have an existing VBScript that already does just what you want. You can easily incorporate any VBScript into PowerShell because PowerShell can call just about anything that is executable, including VBScript. The tricky part is that you mainly want...

In a previous tip, you learned how to call PowerShell statements and read their return value. Return values are somewhat limited because they can only be numeric. There is an easy way to do this if you'd like to read more structured information from a PowerShell call...

Why Hide PowerShell Script Code? Sometimes, you may want to hide the code of your PowerShell script in order to protect passwords contained within the code. One way to safely encrypt PowerShell script is by converting it into a secure string. You must first create a...

WMI is an excellent way of remotely checking files or folders since it has the ability to access individual files and folders, and also works locally as well as remotely. Files are represented by the WMI class CIM_DataFile whereas folders are represented by...

Convert ASCII value to a character To convert the ASCII value to a character, use type casting like this: [char]65 Convert a character to ASCII value To do the opposite and convert a character to its ascii value, use this: [int][char]'A' Here, the letter "A" is first...

Validating User Input as a URL Using System.URI To make sure user input is a valid URL, you can use the System.URI type. Try to convert the raw string into this type. If it works, the string is a valid URI. You can then further examine the converted result to limit...

Refer the code : In PowerShell, you can initialize multiple variables in just one line. The following line sets all variables to the value 1: $a = $b = $c = $d = 1 To swap variables, list variables as comma-separated lists (actually, PowerShell treats your lists...

Hash Tables are convenient but are not true objects. This is bad because you are unable to output the hash content to formatting cmdlets or export cmdlets. With a short function, you can easily convert a Hash Table to an object, providing all the flexibility you need...