Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Hiding parameters from tab completion

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
29 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 4.0 or above. When writing functions and declaring parameters, PowerShell lets us use many parameter attributes to define the behaviour of the parameter.

#PSTip How to convert words to Title Case

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
24 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Let us say that you have a list of words or a sentence that you’d like to manipulate and make sure that every word starts with a capital letter.

#PSTip How to switch off display with PowerShell

Jakub Jareš
2 Min To Read
18 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. This week on a PowerShell forum, I stumbled upon user request to turn off his PC’s display on demand.

#PSTip Get the path to x86 special folders

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
17 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Using the System.Environment+SpecialFolder enumeration we can retrieve a list of all paths to system special folders.

#PSTip How to enable Event logs using Windows PowerShell

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
15 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Since Windows Vista, the operating system is shipped with a ton of additional event logs and providers, some of them are present on the system but are not enabled.

#PSTip How to add thousands separators to a number

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
12 Jul, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Say you have a number like: 133903155, how quickly can you digest it? It’s much easier to read when it’s formatted as 133,903,155.

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