Your terminal doesn't have to look like a boring block of white-on-black text. Personalizing it so much easier than it seems.

What is PowerShell? Microsoft PowerShell is a powerful administrative tool that can help you automate tasks for your computer ...

Microsoft has officially locked Windows PowerShell into Release Candidate status. That means it's pretty much feature-complete and now it's down to bug fixes. Before it's released to the world, let's ...

PowerShell is one of Microsoft's preferred tools for managing Windows Servers. Although it's easy to think of PowerShell as a local management tool, PowerShell can just as easily be used to manage ...

When you right-click the lower left corner of your Windows 10 desktop screen, the WinX menu will pop up, displaying, among other things, Command Prompt. You can replace Command Prompt with PowerShell ...

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher ...

In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...

Instead of this week's regular Q&A, I thought I'd just pass along a nifty tip for accessing some of the more common Vista folders. Yes, the shell command in Vista gives you quick access to various ...

The Windows community is a universe of uniformity in which users depend on robust commercial applications and standard graphical utilities. With the Vista release right around the proverbial corner, ...

I've customized the colors of the standard command shell window using the built-in options: Everything appears correctly when I start command shell from a shortcut which I have placed on my taskbar.