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 ...

CMD has been around for decades, but PowerShell has become a more efficient tool for managing Microsoft products. The PowerShell cmdlets in this ebook will enable you to knock out tasks you used to ...

I f you're using Windows 11 or Windows 10, you’ve probably noticed that PowerShell and Windows Terminal come pre-installed. Both are command-line tools that let you type in comm ...

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 ...

Have you ever felt the need to scale the PowerShell or CMD up and down before? Probably not, but some folks have. You see, it is not the type of task a lot of Windows users would ever think about ...

You can use PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Windows and other operating systems, like organizing data, searching for files or fetching data from the Internet. You can't actually run ...

The good old command prompt is still handy, robust, and customizable in Windows 10 and 11. Lance is an experienced writer who tries to unravel the mysteries of personal tech. He loves watching old ...

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 ...