Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from ...

Microsoft Windows' PowerShell tool is a powerful scripting and administration environment that's largely replaced the traditional Windows command line, which dates back to MS-DOS. You can start a ...

Command-line utilities were built with these streams in mind. PowerShell, on the other hand, understands these streams but has its own as well. When invoking command-line utilities from PowerShell, ...

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 ...

Crescendo amplifies the command-line experience of the original tool to include object output for the PowerShell pipeline, privilege elevation, and integrated help information.

You can add a cascading or expandable context menu item to open Windows Terminal in Default, Command Prompt, PowerShell Profile.

You also see the results right away. PowerShell is actually built as a drop-in replacement for Cmd. It runs all the same command-line tools and has most of the same built-in commands.

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 ...

Build 14971 says goodbye to the classic paint program and puts PowerShell up front instead of the command prompt.