rundll32.exe user32.dll, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters didn’t actually change the wallpaper for me on a 2008 x64 box. This does did though… It calls the Win32 API to invoke changing the wallpaper. If you save this as your ChangeDesktop.ps1 script it should work. As it is below it will remove any desktop wallpaper. However if you do want … Read more
You can use formatting and assign it to another variable: $pw = “$PsHome\powershell.exe”; $command = ‘schtasks /create /tn cleanup /tr “{0} -WindowStyle hidden -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -nologo -noprofile %TEMP%\exec.ps1” /sc minute /mo 1’ -f $pw; cmd.exe /c $command Or you can use double quotes and escape the inside quotes with quotes: $pw = “$PsHome\powershell.exe” cmd.exe /c … Read more
You might look into Jobs or runspaces. Here is an example of Jobs: $block = { Param([string] $file) “[Do something]” } #Remove all jobs Get-Job | Remove-Job $MaxThreads = 4 #Start the jobs. Max 4 jobs running simultaneously. foreach($file in $files){ While ($(Get-Job -state running).count -ge $MaxThreads){ Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 3 } Start-Job -Scriptblock $Block -ArgumentList … Read more
In PowerShell 5.0+, you would use: “TestTest” | Out-File -encoding ascii test.txt -NoNewline But in earlier versions you simply can’t with that cmdlet. Try this: [System.IO.File]::WriteAllText($FilePath,”TestTest”,[System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII)
I realize this question is a couple of years old now, but since it’s still the top result for a lot of Google queries relating to running PowerShell via an Explorer drag-and-drop I figured I’d post what I came up with today in the hopes it helps others. I was wanting to be able to … Read more
Here is the pure PowerShell way if you are interested. Finding files with at least one Unix line ending (PowerShell v1): dir * -inc *.txt | %{ if (gc $_.FullName -delim “`0” | Select-String “[^`r]`n”) {$_} } Here is how you find and covert Unix line endings to Windows line endings. One important thing to … Read more
Adding a comma force to create an array: $x = @( ,@(1,2,3) ) Simple way: $x = ,(1,2,3)
There is a workaround. Open up another instance of PowerShell: PS > powershell PS > [load DLL] PS > [do work] PS > exit After the exit, you’ll be brought back to the instance of PowerShell from which you made this call (assuming you made the powershell call inside and instance of PowerShell). You can … Read more
I know this is an old post but this may help others so… If you specifically know the elements that you are looking for then you can simply specify the element like so: # Read the existing file [xml]$xmlDoc = Get-Content $xmlFileName # If it was one specific element you can just do like so: … Read more
You didn’t tell us what particular problem do you have with the WinSCP, so I can really only repeat what’s in WinSCP documentation. Download WinSCP .NET assembly. The latest package as of now is WinSCP-6.1.1-Automation.zip; Extract the .zip archive along your script; Use a code like this (based on the official PowerShell upload example): # … Read more