10 Most Useful PowerShell Commands for Everday Users

The scripts are often considered as something that only administrators make to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can also benefit from the automation of order lines. Here are 10 PowerShell commands you can use to write scripts to lighten your workload, solve problems and discover new features.

Never trust a script that you find online

It goes without saying that you should verify what a script (or a little code) does before running it – Internet pranks are known to plant useful (but in fact malicious) code online, knowing that someone could install it involuntarily.

There is also a serious risk of cybersecurity if this code does something like deleting your files or stealing financial information. You must look for what each order does in a script, or, if it is a confusing clutter of the declarations, you can use Chatgpt to help to untangle them and discover their objective. You can even get it to help you write your PowerShell scripts for you (everything you can with Excel formulas).

Of course, before you start, you will have to open PowerShell to your Windows device or create a PowerShell script to be run. It is also useful to know the jargon – in the PowerShell language, an order applet is another word for an order (in this case, which performs a single specific task).

Test-Netconnection helps you solve connectivity problems

TNC For Court-Circuit, Test-Netconnection displays diagnostic information on a connection to another network device. This is practical for troubleshooting connectivity to your router (to make sure you get the best connection for your next game session), your wireless printer or your NAS box.

tnc -computername -port 

You can also run TNC -Information the “detailed” For more information.

Get-NetipConfiguration and Get-Netipaddress will also display useful information on your current network connections.

Restart-computer and stop-computer do exactly what they say

These orders do exactly what they say. Apparently trivial, they are super useful to add to a script that updates software or drivers, or to add to your office if you find the frequent need to reset your device and find all of CTRL + Alt + Del Thing Donovenient.

Just run Restart -computer -FORCE Or Stop force And look at life quickly flow from your instructor.

Demystifty cmdlets with Get-Help, Get Command and Get-Member

Documentation at hand! Most PowerShell applications can be described using the Get-Help command, which will show you information on an order. Just run Get-Help Commandname Or Examples of Get-Help To see some examples.

As for Get Command and Get-Member, why not use Get-Help to check them?

Learn PowerShell with the exhibition order

Put the show command in front of any other command, and you will receive a graphical interface with all the available settings, and you can even run the command from this interface. Run alone, he will show all Available commands. It’s like Get-Help on steroids, if you don’t mind leaving the command line interface.

Erase printing work stuck with a shutdown service and a starter service

The windows and printers have never been a match made in paradise, and even the gurus spent countless hours trying to solve even simple problems.

PowerShell can help you here, simply use the stop service and the starter service in a script to stop the printer reel (the Windows service that manages printing work), in conjunction with deletion elements (which deletes files, in this case, printing work in queue) and hoping that it will erase any inexplicable problem prevents you from printing.

Stop-Service spooler
Remove-Item -recurse -force C:\Windows\System32\Spool\PRINTERS*
Start-Service spooler

Note that -Curse indicator in the removal command: this is why it is essential to always read all the commands carefully and to verify that all the paths are correct, because the execution of a recursive deletion in the wrong folder could destroy your system or delete precious data.

Run your own PowerShell scripts with set-escributionpolicy

If you try to run a PowerShell script, even the one you have written yourself, it will probably be blocked by the default execution policy which only allows scripts signed cryptographically by known developers. Set-ExecutionPolicy prevails over this and the execution Set -executionPolicy bypass Process -Force will allow you to run any script for the current session. Just make sure they are trustworthy.

Talk about the mind of your computer with Sapi.Spvoice

Sapi.spvoice brings text to the speech to the command line! Do useful things like reading email notifications, or frustrating by making your PC read to read stranded printing work, or simply annoying your cabin companion. Combine it with Invoke-Restmethod to take an unnecessary random fact and read:

( New-Object -com SAPI.SpVoice ).speak(( Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'https://uselessfacts.jsph.pl/api/v2/facts/random' ).text )

Copy the files with a copying item

Super simple syntax to make a simple copy of files with Copy-Item!

Copy-Item  

I will divert from the “strictly PowerShell” atmosphere from this article to recommend Robocopy for something other than basic copy tasks.

robocopy   /MIR /R:5

See the complete content of a file (and sub-folders) using Get-Childitem

Get-Childitem obtains all files in a folder and can be executed recursively. For example, here is how to list the files in the current folder and its subfolders by size:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Sort-Object Length -Descending | Select-Object FullName, Length -First 10

Monitor performance with the procedure process

If you do not want to leave the task manager open, you can still run Get-Placess for a quick overview of what your Windows PC does.

Get-Process | Sort CPU -Descending | Select -First 5 Name,Id,CPU,WS

The PowerShell command above uses pipes (the vertical bar character that looks like this |) to place the exit from one command to another, allowing you to chain them together.

You just started your script trip

OK, most of these use cases are quite trivial, but the power of the scripts is to resolve yours unique Problems that are not already covered by the user interface of your operating system.

These are less the most useful specific commands for regular users and which commands you can find that can do the specific thing You I want to do (shout to show the order again as a good starting point to see with which orders are available so that you can work). Combined with the task planner, you can script the daily system maintenance or backup tasks, then define them to run at a timely time.

If you want to automate beyond the limits of your device, IFTT works on your mobile device and can also interact with many web services.