Learn how to create & make a PowerShell script run as a scheduled task with or without parameters using Task Scheduler in Windows 11/10.

One of the best new features in PowerShell 7 is the ability to perform parallel execution of script blocks, which can drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to process ForEach-Object loops.

PowerShell modules allow you to combine multiple scripts to simplify code management, accessibility, and sharing. Scripts are useful, but they can become unwieldy over time as you create more and more ...

Then, scale to improve.” Trotta suggests incorporating the following features to improve performance and reliability in PowerShell web scraping scripts: Start-Sleep: This cmdlet helps avoid ...

Script writers have a couple of options to build visual cues to the user as to what's going on in the background. They may choose to use various Write-Verbose or Write-Information references ...

With PowerShell commands, you can create, modify, and delete scheduled tasks on Windows 10. In this guide, I'll teach you how.

They may choose to use various Write-Verbose or Write-Information references indicating the status. Or they can use PowerShell's built-in progress bar support to not only display messages but also to ...

So let's take a look at how this works. Let's suppose that we wanted to create a script based on lines 1-3 of the history displayed in the previous figure.

To create a script, you enter a bunch of PowerShell commands in a sequence in a new Notepad file (or really, you could use any text editor you like), and then save that file as NAME.ps1, where ...