Waves Collection Windows Wallpaper Theme

This is my Windows 7/8 Waves Collection Windows Wallpaper Theme. After downloading double-click waves.themepack to install it.



Previews of the wave pictures in the theme

PowerShell 3 quick switch to PowerShell 2

PowerShell 3 improves on PowerShell 2 by adding almost 500 new cmdlets built-in.  One drawback unfortunately, is cmdlets or scripts written for version 2 do not always work as expected.

If you need to quickly switch to version 2 while you are in PowerShell 3 type the following.

 PowerShell.exe -version 2  

 
You will see the copyright info change to 2009 and if you type get-host it will display version 2.



To switch back to version 3 you can either  close and re-open PowerShell or simply type in your current session

 PowerShell.exe -version 3  

 

Set PowerShell icon launch to default to run as Administrator

Many commands in PowerShell will not run unless they are run as an administrator.  You can of coarse right click on the taskbar icon and choose the ‘Run as Administrator’ option. But if you prefer to have the icon or shortcut default to run PowerShell as Administrator then you can right click on it once, and choose the ‘Properties’ item.

In the window that pops up, near the bottom right of the window click  the ‘Advanced’ button.

On the next (and last) screen, you will see a checkbox with ‘Run as administrator’. make sure that checkbox is selected, click ‘OK’, then ‘OK’ on the main Properties window to exit .

From now on out, when you click the PowerShell icon, it will run as administrator and you should see the Administrator prefix displayed in the PowerShell title bar.

Get memory configuration of all vm's on hyper-v server and output totext file

Two line powershell script that gets memory configuration of all vm’s and outputs to text file.  Change path and name of vmmemory.txt to suit your needs.

Works on Server 2012 with powershell 3

 Get-VM | Get-VMMemory | out-file -filepath C:\VMMemory.txt  
 C:\VMMemory.txt   

Get all vm’s on a hyper-v server and output to text file

This two line PowerShell script will get all vm’s on a hyper-v server and output to text file. Change path and name of vmrunning.txt to suit your needs.

Works on Server 2012 with powershell 3

 Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.State -eq ‘Running’} | out-file -filepath C:VMrunning.txt  
 C:VMrunning.txt  

Powershell 3 combo installer

These combo installers will update PowerShell to Version 3 on either Windows 7 x86 or Windows 7 x64 / Server 2008 R2

The installer runs silently and installs both the dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe  and either the Windows6.1-KB2506143-x86.msu or Windows6.1-KB2506143-x64.msu files. When the script  completes a pop-up prompting for a reboot will be displayed.




After re-booting and launching powershell type get-host to display the version number.

List members of all local groups on a list of computers vbs script

Here is a script that I use to list members of all local groups on a list of computers. It takes a list of computer names and checks the group members on each one then writes the results to a second file. Change the file paths in lines 6,18 and 33 to match your environment. When its complete it will open the text file with the enumerated computers.

 Const ForAppending = 8  
 Const ForReading = 1  
 ServerCount = 0  
 Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")  
 Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile _  
  ("c:\scripts\serverlist.txt", ForReading)  
 Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream  
  strNextLine = objTextFile.Readline  
  strComputer = strNextLine  
  'WScript.Echo "Processing " & strComputer  
  ProcessGroups  
  ServerCount = ServerCount + 1  
 Loop  
 'WScript.Echo "Computers Processed " & ServerCount  
 'WScript.Quit  
 Sub ProcessGroups  
 Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")  
 Set objLogFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("c:\scripts\GroupInfo.txt", _  
  ForAppending, True)  
 objLogFile.writeline " "  
 objLogFile.writeline "***************** " & strComputer & " *****************"  
 Set colGroups = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "")  
 colGroups.Filter = Array("group")  
 For Each objGroup In colGroups  
  objLogFile.writeline objGroup.Name  
  For Each objUser in objGroup.Members  
  objLogFile.writeline vbTab & objUser.Name  
  Next  
 Next  
 objLogFile.Close  
 End Sub  
 Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")  
 WshShell.Run "C:\scripts\GroupInfo.txt"