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 ...

What if your PC could take care of boring tasks for you? With Windows PowerShell, it can. Here's how I use PowerShell to automate everyday repetitive tasks that I would be less keen to do otherwise.

Figure 1: Quickly access commands from the PowerShell console command buffer. The PowerShell console also has the same kind of auto-complete functionality that the command prompt supports. For example ...