Windows Powershell CMD/CLI

Owned by Selvyn Wright
Last updated: Aug 12, 2022
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I'm falling in love with PowerShell.  The more I use it, the more I see the power of this simple but very effective scripting language for controlling the OS.

 

Before you try to execute your scripts, open the PowerShell as administrator, then run the command

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

 

Powershell command to install Chrome

$LocalTempDir = $env:TEMP; $ChromeInstaller = "ChromeInstaller.exe"; (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/375.126/chrome_installer.exe', "$LocalTempDir\$ChromeInstaller"); & "$LocalTempDir\$ChromeInstaller" /silent /install; $Process2Monitor = "ChromeInstaller"; Do { $ProcessesFound = Get-Process | ?{$Process2Monitor -contains $_.Name} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name; If ($ProcessesFound) { "Still running: $($ProcessesFound -join ', ')" | Write-Host; Start-Sleep -Seconds 2 } else { rm "$LocalTempDir\$ChromeInstaller" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Verbose } } Until (!$ProcessesFound)