If you work in IT, chances are PowerShell is already part of your daily routine. You might use it to check a service, pull system information, or automate a task that would otherwise take several ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is doubling down on its plan to turn Windows 11 into an "agentic AI" platform, and in the process seems determined to strip away the last bits of user agency left in the OS.

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web content, aiming to prevent potentially risky code from executing. As Microsoft ...

Install PowerShell 7 on Windows to get faster performance, cross platform support, and modern command features. This guide shows you how to set it up in a few minutes. You need a Windows 10 or Windows ...

Microsoft is finally saying goodbye to PowerShell 2.0 — the 14-year-old command-line tool and scripting language that debuted alongside Windows 7 — as part of a broader effort to clean up legacy code ...

A cybersecurity researcher has developed FileFix, a variant of the ClickFix social engineering attack that tricks users into executing malicious commands via the File Explorer address bar in Windows.

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new malware campaign that makes use of a PowerShell-based shellcode loader to deploy a remote access trojan called Remcos RAT. "Threat actors delivered ...

When I use system Explorer to run this powershell file with Run with Powershell Context Menu Item, it works well. But when I use Files to run powershell file with Run with Powershell Context Menu Item ...

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series. In the previous article in ...

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...

Hamid is a certified Google IT Support Professional. Key Takeaways Adjust the Execution Policy to allow script execution by using the "Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned" command which balances security ...