Home
Author
About

Subscribe

PowerShell

Simple PowerShell Concepts

Benjamin Benavides

Jul 6, 2022 • 1 min read

PowerShell variables always start with the dollar sign ($) character.

$myVariable = 1

Sign up for more like this.

Enter your email

Exporting a Device Driver with PowerShell

This should help with finding and exporting a device driver should you need to test a version from one machine on a different machine. # Get a list of all installed drivers $drivers = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_PnPSignedDriver | Select-Object DeviceName, Description, DeviceID, DriverVersion, InfName # Display the drivers in a Grid-View and allow

Benjamin Benavides Mar 24, 2025 • 1 min read

Windows Health (Checking/Restoring)

Checking and Restoring Windows HealthCheck the Diskchkdsk c: REM use the /f option to force fix any errors chkdsk c: /f c:\Windows\System32>chkdsk c: /f The type of the file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by

Benjamin Benavides Mar 20, 2025 • 1 min read

Clearing File Associations

# Clear file association for .PDF files $extension = ".pdf" $progId = "" # Remove the file association Remove-Item "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\$extension" -Recurse # Clear the user choice Remove-ItemProperty "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\$extension\UserChoice" -Name ProgId -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue # Set the ProgId to an empty string Set-ItemProperty "HKCU:

Benjamin Benavides Aug 26, 2024 • 1 min read

Ben Benavides © 2025

Powered by Ghost