Windows 10

For testing purposes or as a simple stub at the service deployment stage, I regularly need to run a simple web server on Windows. To avoid a full-featured IIS installation,…

This article describes how to update Windows PowerShell to the latest version 5.1 and how to install (upgrade) PowerShell Core 7.3. There are currently two branches of PowerShell: The classic…

After deploying a new WSUS server on our corporate network, many Windows clients were unable to receive updates from the server with the error 0x80244010. It turns out that this…

When starting a new service or app on Windows, you may find that another program (process) already occupied (listening) the port you want to use. This article will show you…

You can use the Import-CSV PowerShell cmdlet to read the contents of a CSV file. Once you load the contents of the CSV file, you get a PowerShell object in…

When started, some programs require permission elevation (the shield next to the app icon), but actually, they don’t need administrator privileges for their normal operation. For example, you can manually…

In Windows, you can manage the settings for your network adapters not only from the GUI but also from the PowerShell command prompt. In this article, we’ll look at the…

You can use the open-source usbipd-win project to access a computer’s physical USB devices from the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) or Hyper-V virtual machine. This tool allows you to…

You can use the built-in Send-MailMessage cmdlet to send SMTP e-mails from PowerShell (previously you can use the .Net System.Net.Mail class to send e-mail messages). Send-MailMessage allows you to send…

Windows Server RDS farm administrators are often faced with the problem of running out of space on a system drive due to a large amount of user data. This article…