Brien Posey explains why PowerShell timers can cause Windows Forms dashboards to freeze or fail to update, and why keeping GUI scripts responsive requires a different approach to timed events.

A practical workaround shows how PowerShell developers can keep Windows Forms GUIs responsive by moving timer-driven processing into background jobs and using a second timer to update the interface ...

Adam Bertram is a 20-year IT veteran, blogger and freelance writer. Follow him on the social platform X @adbertram. Everyone learns PowerShell differently, but I recommend a ­three-step approach to ...

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Here's how I use Linux to automate Windows tasks.

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

Scripts are part of the foundation for efficient network administration. Network administrators are generally not programmers, but they need tools that will let them automate certain tasks and ...

PowerToys is getting a new "low memory mode" to stop background utilities like Color Picker from hoarding hundreds of ...

Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi plans to leave after 35 years, but says he will spend his final year pushing Windows 11 toward an ...

In a previous series of articles, I revisited Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and found that it had matured a great deal since it first came out around five years ago. If you haven't installed it ...

Exposure therapy to the bash shell brought me to the tipping point, and I jumped ship to the Macintosh side of the house. It was a move calculated to give me the best of all possible worlds—a good ...