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Test Hyper-V VHD Folders with PowerShell

Posted on April 1, 2013

I’ve recently added a USB 3.0 Express Card adapter to my laptop to provide USB 3.0 functionality. The added performance is very useful in my Hyper-V setup. However, I am running into a glitch that I have yet to figure out where the external drives (the Express card has 2 ports) are still attached and…

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Finding Files in the Path – A Pipeline Perk

Posted on November 17, 2011

I’ve been chipping in on a forum post about finding if a given file exists in any folder within the system environmental %PATH% variable using Windows PowerShell. There are several ways you might approach this. But the best way in my opinion is to leverage the PowerShell pipeline. Perhaps you don’t really need the solution…

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Get Profiles

Posted on November 6, 2009November 6, 2009

Keith Hill posted a bit of PowerShell code a few days ago that piqued my interest. I knew that in PowerShell, the $profile variable would list your current profile. PS C:\> $profile C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 This is handy because it makes it easy to call up my script editor if I need to make a change. But…

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