Install apps on Windows without Microsoft Store
Posted 19th October 2021
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How can you install Microsoft Store apps on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 machine if your administrator has blocked Windows Store?
Use selective criteria to count files in PowerShell
Posted 1st July 2021
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Use Windows PowerShell to easily return some key statistics about the files contained on your computer or network drives using selective criteria.
Relative file paths in BAT files
Posted 30th January 2019
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Instructions for using a relative file path in batch files.
Run an ImageJ batch processing macro in “headless” mode
Posted 23rd October 2018
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Instructions for running an ImageJ macro script in “headless” mode via the command prompt in Windows.
Run a PowerShell script directly from GitHub Gist
Posted 9th April 2018
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Simple code that enables you to host your PowerShell scripts on GitHub Gist but execute them from a local machine.
Transferring packages between different versions of R
Posted 31st July 2017
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Use a couple of small scripts to easily “transfer” installed packages between different installations or versions of R.
UNC path from local path in PowerShell
Posted 23rd February 2017
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Use this simple PowerShell code to convert a local path into an UNC path.
Download all PDFs from a web page via PowerShell
Posted 6th December 2016
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Use PowerShell to download every PDF from a web page and save them to a nominated folder.
Upload files to an SFTP server via PowerShell
Posted 11th November 2016
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Easily transfer files from a local drive to a Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) server using PowerShell. This script is useful for automating file transfers.
PowerShell: Creation date into filenames
Posted 5th August 2016
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Insert a file’s creation date into its file name using a simple piece of PowerShell scripting.