Most IT admins use PowerShell for scripting and automation, but it's not just for IT specialists—anyone dealing with messy folders needs these commands. I use them to track down old code, organize ...

Windows PowerShell has a built-in History feature that remembers all the commands you executed when using it. While it should remember the History of the active session, I see that it retains more ...

Microsoft has officially locked Windows PowerShell into Release Candidate status. That means it's pretty much feature-complete and now it's down to bug fixes. Before it's released to the world, let's ...

If you run Show-Command at a prompt without specifying a command name, the graphical display will list cmdlets and functions from all modules, regardless of whether or not they are loaded into the ...

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 ...

Command Prompt was a Microsoft-supplied command line interpreter and is called MS-DOS Prompt on Windows 9x systems. (It has since been replaced by PowerShell. This article presents a command prompt ...