Hey Guys I would like to use powershell to calculate from the 1st of Jan 2018 to tell me what the date will be every 28 days through the year. (Get-Date -year 2018 -Month 1 -Day 1).AddDays(28) The above only gives me the date for the first 28 days, how do I get it for […]
Month: April 2018
Shortest Script Challenge – Scrabble?
What is the highest scoring scrabble word in the first 10,000 words in enable1.txt? Consider this your input: $W = Get-Content enable1.txt $S = @{ “A” = 1 “B” = 3 “C” = 3 “D” = 2 “E” = 1 “F” = 4 “G” = 2 “H” = 4 “I” = 1 “J” = 8 […]
Is this doing what I expect?
Ok, so this might seem like a strange idea, but I’ve got a function for parsing through a single log file, that is going to hopefully, eventually, parse that out into other files for/purposes. I’m trying to write this as general as possible, and am slowly getting it there, however, there was one big thorn […]
The normal behavior for ‘Remember Login’ and ‘Startup with Windows’?
I have a login form with login, password textboxes, a button to connect and two CheckBoxes/ToggleButtons for both Remembering the login of the user and starting the application on Windows startup. I want to know what is the normal behavior here? Should I save the settings as soon as the Checkbox is checked? or only […]
Given my circumstances should I really learn C# with Xamarin
My career goal is to be a pen tester but I’d also thought of starting a startup sometime in the future. I already know C++ and currently learning Python.I’m also learning BASH scripting too. I wanted to learn C# with Xamarin so I could make cross platform apps but it seems like a completely different […]
Please help improve my style
Hey Guy, Long time lurker, first time poster. I’m a self taught programmer and I’m looking to improve my style. I’ve started writing programs to help with my day-to-day work and, although functional, my programming style is…. inelegant. It works, but i know i need to improve. Here is a link to one of my […]
Text to Speech with Cortana with Oneliner Powershell Install
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Help setting a local user account ‘user cannot change password’ ?
Note – user is a member of Administrators I’m trying something like this which is not working (Generic Failure, InvalidOperation): Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserAccount -Filter “LocalAccount=TRUE and Name=’$username'” | Set-WmiInstance -Arguments @{PasswordChangeable = $FALSE} I can run the same code but instead set @{PasswordExpires = $FALSE} and that works fine. Anyone have an idea? Hoping there’s […]
Hash table from registry key
I have a registry key (e.g. HKLM:SoftwareSomeApp) that has a bunch of REG_SZ under it. I need to get all of the string names and values into a hash table. I found an old Scripting Guy blog post (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2012/05/11/use-powershell-to-enumerate-registry-property-values/) about getting an array. That’s…okay, but every method I’ve tried to convert it to a hash […]