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A few days ago I posted the question online of how I could change the Windows 7 theme using any automated method such as .Net or even C++ which I could call from Windows PowerShell. Although I was unable to locate a solution to the problem, PowerShell version 3 did offer a compromise.     [...]

One of the nice things that has changed with PowerShell Version 3 as of CTP 2 is the way that the registry is displayed. In PowerShell Version 3, the PowerShell team updated the format files for the registry provider. To see this difference first do a directory listing for HKCU: in version 2. You will [...]

Imagine the scenario: You are working on a script or command in your PowerShell session and you need to get help on a cmdlet. Sure, you have tab completion, but you can’t remember whether the parameter takes a string or an object, or you can’t remember how the value should be formatted. So you break [...]