One of the last vestiges of the old MS-DOS days, the Command Prompt, is looking like an endangered species. The latest Windows 10 preview build puts the Windows PowerShell, first introduced on Windows ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

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 ...

Hints of what’s to come in next spring’s Windows 10 Creators Update just keep on coming. Microsoft recently released Windows 10 Insider Preview build 14971, which integrates Paint 3D, turns your ...

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 ...

If you are still clinging to the old DOS command prompt, you are not alone. There are still some things you can do quickly using the command prompt. In addition, you may already be familiar with the ...

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 ...

With the Terminal, Windows has a common interface for Powershell, Command Prompt and Azure Cloud Shell. This allows you to start the terminal directly with the command prompt. You can open the program ...

On Jan. 17, 2018, Microsoft's Scott Hanselman asked Visual Studio developers if they would like a PowerShell prompt with pre-set PATH and Environment variables baked right into the IDE. They said yes.

I think it’s time to talk in depth about some of the most important features of PowerShell: Providers and modules. (Snap-ins have also been important, but they are being gradually phased out.) These ...