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PowerShell to set the registry for all users

Here is a PowerShell script that sets a registry value for all users on a Windows machine. This script modifies the registry under the HKEY_USERS hive, which contains subkeys for each user profile. # Define the registry path and value $registryPath = “Software\YourApp\Settings” $valueName = “YourSetting” $valueData = “YourValue” # Get all user SIDs $userSIDs…
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Registry – Windows 11 move Start Menu to left

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] “TaskbarAl”=dword:00000000 Some people are used to legacy way of previous OS version’s, and this is an easy way to move from the center to the left the Start Menu.    

PowerShell – Stop process before Service

## Stop process before Service # Define the process name and service name $processName = “YourProcessName” $serviceName = “YourServiceName” # Stop the process $process = Get-Process -Name $processName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if ($process) { Stop-Process -Name $processName -Force Write-Output “Process ‘$processName’ has been stopped.” } else { Write-Output “Process ‘$processName’ is not running.” } # Stop…
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Disable Copilot

Here is the registry settings to disable Copilot Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Disable Copilot button on taskbar [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] “ShowCopilotButton”=dword:00000000 ; Disable Copilot service for current user [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot] “TurnOffWindowsCopilot”=dword:00000001 ; Disable Copilot service for all users [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot] “TurnOffWindowsCopilot”=dword:00000001 or you can download the registry setting here   Disable Copilot

PowerShell – Working on a template build – rough draft

I am working on updating a process for installing software…I like the audio process for letting me know where in the code I am at in the process. Rough draft see if I can figure a way to streamline this process. #################################################################### ## Write-Host “`n” Write-Host ” ————————————————- ” -ForegroundColor Cyan Write-Host ” | |…
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Find the Hostname of a Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM)

If you are running a virtual machine (VM) on Hyper-V, sometimes you want to know on which Hyper-V host this VM is running.  I work on a lot of VM’s and this is cool part of knowing where to look, especially when troubleshooting. If you don’t have access to the Hyper-V host, you need to…
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Creating Hyper-V VM with PowerShell

I was trying to learn how to create a VM in Windows 2019 Hypervisor with PowerShell. Microsoft Resource  was a big help. Some of things that I started to learn was how to setup VM Switches, enable VLAN, create and configure a VM that would show up in Hyper-V and the settings needed to run.…
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Software list of download links

List of direct downloads of software or the current versions available.

Batman (1989)

          Remembering 1989 when Batman came out.

PowerShell API Wrapper Links

API Wrapper links from online sources. A module for simple integration with Atlassian HipChat via the HipChat API. This PowerShell module contains commands to manage GitHub through its REST API. Powershell cmdlets that expose the GitHub API. PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with GitHub Gist. A PowerShell module to work with GitHub Gists. A PowerShell Module…
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