Many information technology (IT) professionals use Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) to manage updates across all their Windows systems and other third-party software. When WSUS is paired with ...

Typically, on a Windows-based PC, you can check an item or a folder’s size by just right-clicking the item or folder and then selecting Properties from the context menu. In this post, we will show you ...

Open Windows PowerShell Identify the folder Use Remove-item command. Here is the tutorial in detail form. You have to include the file extension in the command. Otherwise, it won’t recognize your ...

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Looking at the signature of a file quickly lets you know whether that file is really what it claims to be. Here's how to tap PowerShell to figure out the file ...

Ever since Windows Server was first introduced back in the '90s, the tool of choice for managing system services has been the Service Control Manager. It is possible, however, to manage system ...

Web scraping tools gather a website's pertinent information for you to peruse or download. Learn how to create your own web ...

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 ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

Sometimes it’s easiest to learn something new simply by using it, and to my mind PowerShell is no exception. Often we discover new capabilities and features in looking at what tasks other people are ...

Microsoft this week described how to use PowerShell to better manage Windows 10 updates when using the Windows Update for Business' new Deployment Service addition. Windows Update for Business is an ...