#powershell

Kill and auto-restart explorer.exe — the classic repair for a dead Start menu, unresponsive taskbar, or glitchy icons.

Find out how many memory modules are populated, their capacity and speed, and how many slots your motherboard has.

See which graphics card Windows detects, its driver version, and current output resolution in one line.

Encrypt your DNS lookups with a DoH server so your ISP cannot easily see which sites you visit.

Add a new local Windows account (child, guest, shared machine) from PowerShell instead of the Settings wizard.

Delete stuck print jobs and restart the print spooler instead of rebooting the whole PC.

A quick PowerShell table of used and free gigabytes across every local and mapped drive.

Create an outbound Windows Firewall rule that cuts a program off from the network.

The PowerShell true/false existence test every script should start with — supports files, folders, registry keys, and wildcards.

Change the Windows computer name from PowerShell in one command instead of digging through Settings.

Read the exact firmware version and release date from Windows before downloading a BIOS update.

Purge deleted files from the Recycle Bin in one PowerShell command, with optional per-drive scoping.