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Category: PowerShell
PowerShell – Windows 7 – Windows Service Cleanup
There are many services on Windows 7 that do not need to run, while some suggest disabling the service I tend to go on the side of caution and simply stop and set them to manual startup.
PowerShell – Delete Windows Service
Recently while trying Kentico I had to uninstall it and found that the service didn’t properly uninstall so I found PowerShell was quickly able to remedy that problem.
PowerShell – Get Computer Information
This script is pieced together from various posts, I only take credit for combining the resources. There is more than initially is seen to this script, based on the code below it will write a text file on c:\ and does need admin privileges in order to run. Right around…
PowerShell Get All Environment Variables
If you need to know some of the system variables that are already set you can run this script to get the values Once you know what variable you want you can do something like this
PowerShell / Chocolatey Install WAMP
Following the Chocolatey post we now install WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Open PowerShell as administrator Configure WAMP for port 8080
Chocolatey
What is Chocolatey Chocolatey NuGet is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get (UNIX), but built with Windows in mind. How to Install Open PowerShell ISE as admin (typical 64-bit path %windir%\sysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\PowerShell_ISE.exe) Set Execution Policy Permissions Run the installation script from https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1
Acrylic Proxy DNS Setup
While still configuring my changes to Raspberry Pi Setup Proxy Server this works on an individual computer. NOTE: I have this setup mainly for the Wi-Fi, if you want it for wired connections you will need to change Wi-Fi to “Ethernet” or “Ethernet 2” Step 1: Download and Setup Acrylic…