On Windows 11 (and Windows 10), PowerShell is a powerful command-line interface designed to run commands and scripts that automate tasks and manage system settings. While it serves a similar purpose ...

If you have every used the Command Line, or CMD, interface in Windows, you probably have some idea of the powerful things it can do. Creating your own CMD scripts, you can do even more, but faster. A ...

PowerShell scripts are great because they can be used to do almost anything. One of the limitations to PowerShell scripts, however, is that it isn't always practical to give a script to someone who ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

Last week’s README file demonstrated how easy it is to turn virtually any desktop machine into an SFTP server. Today’s piece shows how to automate a well-known Windows open source SFTP client using ...

You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

Windows PowerShell is probably best-known for its ability to allow Windows admins to operate at scale. For instance, it would take forever to create a thousand user accounts through the GUI, but ...

When you log in to the computer, if you see a message box with an error message saying “Can not find script file” in Windows 11 and Windows 10, this post may help ...

Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.

It is key for users to be able to move and rearrange their files, especially if they use Windows for professional purposes. Moving files one by one can be a tedious process, in which case creating a ...