Category Archives: scripts

Querying UDP Ports with PowerShell: Part 2

In my previous post on working with UDP ports and PowerShell I showed you how you can set up listeners on both your local and remote systems to send and receive data through those ports.  While this is a great … Continue reading

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PowerShell Profile Removal GUI

In a previous article, I showed you how you can use PowerShell to remove local profiles from local and remote systems. A couple of downsides to using this was: This only worked on Vista and above Operating Systems You can … Continue reading

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ShowUI Text Converter for Fun and Profit…Mostly Fun

01010000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 01010011 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01010110 00110011 00100000 01010010 01101111 01100011 01101011 01110011 00100001 So what did I type here? Well, you can either copy this text and go find a binary-to-text converter online… … Continue reading

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Checking for failing Hard Drives using S.M.A.R.T and PowerShell

I noticed a link to an article on twitter yesterday that talked about how you can use PowerShell to query for a SMART enabled hard drive and detect a possible imminent failure. It was an interesting article and showed me … Continue reading

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Show-UI Weather Widget and a Non Show-UI widget

Ok, this weather widget created by Joel “Jaykul” Bennett (Blog | Twitter) is just amazingly cool. This widget auto-updates the temperature and even updates the picture to reflect the current conditions outside. The requirement to run this is by having … Continue reading

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