4.13 Windows & PowerShell
Every entry filed under Windows & PowerShell and its subtopics.
Level
- Beginner 8
- Intermediate 2
- Advanced 0
What kind of help
- Guided project 0
- Explains an idea 1
- Step by step 6
- Cheat sheet 1
- Fixes an error 2
Works on
What do these mean?
- Beginner
- You are new to this topic.
- Intermediate
- You use it, and want to get better.
- Advanced
- You know it well and need the details.
- Guided project
- Build something small from start to finish, step by step.
- Explains an idea
- Plain words on how something works and why.
- Step by step
- Numbered steps to get one task done.
- Cheat sheet
- Commands and options in a table, to look up fast.
- Fixes an error
- An error message, what it means, and how to solve it.
12 entries match these filters
- 0406 PowerShell: the cross-platform shell and scripting language The open-source PowerShell 7 project from Microsoft: an object-based shell and automation language that runs on Windows, Linux and macOS and is… Linux, macOS, Windows Repo PowerShell 15 Oct 2026
- 0402 Fix: WSL2 has no network or DNS does not resolve apt update hangs, ping works by IP but not by name, or nothing reaches the internet from Ubuntu while Windows is fine.… Intermediate · Fixes an error · Windows Article Windows administration · WSL 15 Oct 2026
- 0403 Work across Windows and WSL: files, paths and running tools from both sides WSL is most useful when Windows and Linux cooperate: open Linux folders in Explorer, run Windows programs from bash, convert paths with… Beginner · Step by step · Windows Article Basics · WSL 15 Oct 2026
- 0400 winget: install and update software from the command line winget is the package manager built into Windows. Search for a program, install it by id, update everything with one command and… Beginner · Step by step · Windows Article Installing languages & tools · Windows administration 15 Oct 2026
- 0407 Windows Terminal: tabs, panes and profiles for every shell on Windows Microsoft's modern terminal for Windows, with tabs, split panes, GPU rendering, Unicode and emoji support and profiles for PowerShell, cmd, WSL distributions… Windows Repo Command-line tools · Windows administration 15 Oct 2026
- 0401 Windows services, Task Scheduler and event logs from PowerShell Manage the three things Windows administrators touch most: query and restart services, create and inspect scheduled tasks, and search the event logs… Intermediate · Step by step · Windows Article PowerShell · Windows administration 15 Oct 2026
- 0404 Find the largest folders on a drive with PowerShell Lists the biggest top-level folders under a path, with file counts and sizes in GB, so you can see where the disk… Beginner · Step by step · Linux, macOS, Windows Script PowerShell · Windows administration 15 Oct 2026
- 0405 Export the list of installed programs to CSV with PowerShell Reads the Windows uninstall registry keys and writes name, version, publisher and install date of every installed program to a CSV file.… Beginner · Step by step · Windows Script PowerShell · Windows administration 15 Oct 2026
- 0398 Install WSL2 and Ubuntu on Windows One command installs the Windows Subsystem for Linux and Ubuntu. Then learn how to pick a distribution, check which WSL version you… Beginner · Step by step · Windows Article Windows administration · WSL 15 Oct 2026
- 0396 PowerShell basics: cmdlets, objects and the pipeline PowerShell commands are called cmdlets, they return objects instead of text, and the pipeline passes those objects between them. Once that clicks,… Beginner · Explains an idea · Linux, macOS, Windows Article PowerShell 15 Oct 2026
- 0397 PowerShell cheat sheet The PowerShell cmdlets and patterns you use every day: files, text, processes, services, filtering, exporting, remoting and the operators that trip up… Beginner · Cheat sheet · Linux, macOS, Windows Article PowerShell 15 Oct 2026
- 0399 Fix: running scripts is disabled on this system (execution policy) PowerShell refuses to run .ps1 files until the execution policy allows it. The usual fix is RemoteSigned for your own user; here… Beginner · Fixes an error · Windows Article PowerShell · Windows administration 15 Oct 2026