Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from ...

Use the built-in IExpress.exe tool to easily convert PowerShell script (PS1) file to EXE in Windows 11/10. There are third-party tools available too.

The file referenced in the Userinit registry value is run even before the user interface loads. To start the Explorer shell, switch to the Task Manager window, click File, and select Run new task.

The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar file, maybe — and include a shell script that you have to tell the user to run after unpacking. That may be obvious, but it assumes a ...

Do your users like to tinker with scripts? Keep yours out of harm's way by using Microsoft's Script Encoder. Greg Shultz shows you how to use the Encoder for basic script protection.

Is there a good way to automate that part?<br><br>I'm apparently also too much of a novice to figure out a convenient way to add or remove entries from the virtual user file.

I am running Server '03 in a windows environment. I have a script that users can run, but I want to prevent them from being able to right+click->edit and view the contents of the script. Is there ...

Nearly two years ago, we introduced the hard drive janitor, a Windows script that deletes files older than a set number of days in a folder you define. Today, the Janitor script gets a much-needed ...