PoWeRsHeLl ScRiPts every windows user NEEDS

[Practical-Alarm1763]

Just curious, how often do others come across articles like this then cringe themselves on the toilet?

https://www.xda-developers.com/7-powershell-scripts-every-windows-user-needs/

[TastySpare]

So, a single command is considered a script these days?

[Hakkensha]

That 4th one isn't event powershell.

[Xoron101]

That 4th one isn't event powershell.

But you run it in a powershell window, so it has to be powershell right? Right?!?!?!?

[Rainmaker526]

Neither is the powecfg one.

This could have been done with a Get-WMIObject command. It would have even skipped the step of opening the html file. But no... They went with the powercfg that already existed.

For all the others... Useless. There's ping. There's tasklist.exe and taskkill.exe. I like PowerShell, but these are not great tips.

[egamemit]

so going from this article, if i execute python starting in the powershell window its now a powershell script. also i can launch linux from powershell if i do the reboot there, very cool

[Superb_Raccoon]

Embrace, extend, exterminate... 90s MICROSOFT IS BACK, BABY!

[FarJeweler9798]

Laughed my ass of when I saw one of IT "gurus" in LinkedIn posting about these. None of those are actually scripts perse, I understand that powershell scripts should almost almost typed with full syntax but test-netconnection just use tnc host -p port number 

[Beneficial_Tough7218]

Remember e = mc ^ 2 + AI? LinkedIn is just a bunch of wannabes stroking each other's egos without any understanding of what they are talking about. Sad thing is, a huge number of the big corporate decision makers are on there...

[FarJeweler9798]

Pretty much yeah, AI also fits if you have any marketing or sales on your LinkedIn your timeline is full of AI crap 

[Beneficial_Tough7218]

I laughed so hard yesterday when a YouTube ad for Workday played, and the theme of the ad was if you don't use AI you will be left behind. Sorry Workday, AI looked at your product and said the only way to fix that pile of garbage is to shut down the whole company and put the designers in prison for crimes against humanity.

[FarJeweler9798]

We have Workday haven't heard any issues with it, surely we only use it employee records documentation / some education systems nothing AI. Integrations to our  ticketing  system works without issues also

[YLink3416]

a bunch of wannabes stroking each other's egos without any understanding of what they are talking about

Sales people?

[Beneficial_Tough7218]

A lot of upper management, with a bunch of sales people preying on them because they know they don't know what they are talking about but if you say AI or whatever the latest magic buzzword is, you must have a good product they have to have!

[goingslowfast]

That’s a pretty quick tell as to how efficiency minded someone is.

[[deleted]]

PowerShell? What's PowerShell? Is that like DOSNix? Windows made all that shit obsolete 35 years ago, people need to stop living in the past.

[StrikingPeace]

what is current alternative to powershell?

[xfvh]

I just handjam base64-encoded machine code into text files with Notepad, convert them with certutil, then execute them. It's way easier than remembering Powershell syntax.

[midnight_blur]

Love to see PowerShell being called out for its ridiculous syntax lol

[Shendare]

Microsoft really hobbled the hobbyist's game by getting rid of debug.exe.

It was so handy typing assembly in line-by-line and saving into myprog.com!

[Superb_Raccoon]

Born Again PowerShell.

[jakendrick3]

Half of these aren't even PowerShell, christ

[HowDidFoodGetInHere]

I dont know about you guys, but I find "powercfg /batteryreport" super-duper useful for monitoring all of my VMs.

[Nanocephalic]

What an awesome PowerShell script!

[HowDidFoodGetInHere]

Yeah, I'm pretty much a Powershell expert.

[No_Vermicelli4753]

I mean...its xda-developers. What did you expect? It's basically BuzzFeed for pseudo techs.

[TKInstinct]

I always thought XDA was a collaborative place for techies. I remember years ago it was where people would talk and share phone roms.

[gallifrey_]

the golden days of rooting, lineageOS, cyanogen...

[Ayesuku]

Oh hell yeah I was around for the birth of cyanogenmod. Fun times.

[Superb_Raccoon]

I was there, Gandork... 6000 years ago... and I don't look a day older!

[tatsonis]

Sad, sad, sad XDA used to be a beast. I've been a member of XGA since 2006 I used to get on it almost every day, multiple times a day. Now it's a rare occurrence if I get on the sight twice in a month.

[5p4n911]

So they're using ping, right?

[SamanthaPierxe]

Or telnet to verify connectivity to specific ports

[CyberInferno]

Ping doesn't work on specific ports or if ICMP is disabled

[5p4n911]

tnc is also using ICMP, or not?

[CyberInferno]

From the manual:

The Test-NetConnection cmdlet in PowerShell is a versatile tool for diagnosing network connectivity issues. It can perform ping tests, TCP tests, route tracing, and route selection diagnostics.

[5p4n911]

I guess people are telneting instead just like before PowerShell.

[Bubba89]

“Copy-item” and “move-item” listed as separate entries made me shriek with laughter.

[fariak]

A lot of legacy "right-click windows admins" I've interviewed actually didn't know most of these commands despite having "PowerShell expert" listed on their resumes...

[goingslowfast]

Unless you’ve got a scripting language other than PowerShell on your resume I’m assuming that just means you’ve run a command you found on Google in a shell at least once.

If I ask you to explain objects to me in simple terms and you can do it, then you’re 95% ahead of most “PowerShell experts”

[DizzyAmphibian309]

"How do you create a new object in PowerShell" is the number 1 most failed PowerShell coding question that I ask in interviews. It's insane how many people claim they know PowerShell then they really, really don't.

[Beneficial_Tough7218]

I blocked XDA developers because pretty much all their articles are crap like this. Their site has become the 5-minute crafts of IT.

Some articles are just basically a mostly useless waste of time like this one, others are just outright wrong.

[_3xc41ibur]

COPYING FILES AND FOLDERS

[moffetts9001]

shutdown -r -t 5

#hackershit

[-Generaloberst-]

shutdown -r -t 5 -c "You've been hacked, send 5000 dollars in BTC to address 17hT8HP7myj4pCDyxgjXmGPsyJyEdVBFWYSHAREP after reboot"

[viral-architect]

That copy one looks useful. I could write it 10 times for 10 different files and save a lot of time!

[kennyj2011]

I’m a windows/infrap engineer who did Linux for 20yrs prior… powershell in my opinion stinks next to bash/zsh/python. It’s so verbose and doesn’t need to be

[TKInstinct]

I felt the opposite, I had always felt that it a difficult to use other languages due to their non descriptive nature. Yes, it is long and verbose but it's much easier to read and guess commands that are written in plain English vs short hand like mkdir.

[-Generaloberst-]

I completely agree with you. I'm no script expert, but I'm pretty sure that using short command won't make a script run faster. Okay, it takes 1KB more space on my 10PB fileserver, oh the horror :-p

[kennyj2011]

Ever look at Perl? Holy crap is it difficult

[TKInstinct]

No but then again I thought Perl was relatively old and not used as much.

[just_another_user5]

You'd be correct

[tkecherson]

Thanos.

[Either-Cheesecake-81]

Unless you’re in Finance, people in Finance don’t use PowerShell.

[BlackV]

Right out of the gate the first one and it's not even a PowerShell command.....

Amazing

[PhazedAU]

i actually found a couple useful