Get Windows Product Key with PowerShell
Retrieve the windows product key of a specified machine using WMI, via PowerShell.
PowerShell Support Matrix
Do you have trouble remember which operating system supports what version of PowerShell? This little cheat sheet will give you hand with that.
Stop Service and Wait
Very simple script that stops a service and waits for it to stop before rebooting. This script can be edited so it runs on every reboot or can be run manually to reboot.
Basic PowerShell Cheatsheet
We all need to peek at the answers from time to time. This post is simply a quick reference guide for basic PowerShell tips, tricks, how-to’s, explanations, etc.
Download website html code with VB6
In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest. This code sample demonstrates how to harvest the headers and html code of a web site via VB6. The code presented here shows how to download the header information and html code from a web site, and save that data to text file. In… Read More »
System Administrator Excuse Generator Service
Part of the job of a system administrator is to define root cause for a problem or outage this is happening. This site has an excuse generator, but you’d normally have to open the page to view the excuses. Not anymore!
System Uptime Utility
This is a simple but useful command line utility for determining the uptime of the local computer.
Use PowerShell to quickly deploy a VM
Using virtual machines to test things has become almost a second nature exercise for some folks. Here’s a method to deploy a duplicate of a Hyper-V virtual machine in less than ten seconds with PowerShell.
Are You an IT Old Timer?
I’ve been called graybeard. Old timer. Fossil. Dad. Grandpa. Geezer. I’ve been working in the technology field for over thirty years, so all these descriptors are probably fitting. If you’re not sure you’re an IT old timer, here is a description, and a few definitions for you young people.
String Functions Module
I’ve put together a few string handling functions in a module that I’ve found useful over of the years, and thought I would share them here so that others might find them useful. Attached to this post is a zip file containing the module, which you simple have to extract and attach to your VB6 project. Below is… Read More »