How to Check SSD and HDD Health with PowerShell (Get-PhysicalDisk)
Check SSD and HDD health with Get-PhysicalDisk and Get-StorageReliabilityCounter: temperature, wear, power-on hours and …
Automation 10 posts
Information security in plain English: scams, hardening and privacy — plus retrogaming, games and geek culture.
Invoke-WebRequest: download files and test URLs in PowerShell
Learn to use Invoke-WebRequest in PowerShell to download files, check HTTP status, and query REST APIs — no browser …
Get-Service in PowerShell: Auditing Windows Services
Learn to use Get-Service in PowerShell to list, filter and detect stopped automatic services on Windows. A practical …
Get-WinEvent — how to investigate errors and crashes on Windows
Use Get-WinEvent in PowerShell to find out why the PC rebooted on its own, a service stopped or an app crashed — without …
Robocopy: automatic Windows backup without installing anything extra
Robocopy already ships with Windows and does incremental, mirror and multi-threaded backups — with nothing to install. …
How to schedule Windows tasks without a GUI — schtasks in practice
schtasks is the crontab of Windows: already installed, runs in the terminal and needs no graphical interface. Learn it …
winget: install and update every Windows app in seconds
winget is the native Windows package manager that replaces clicking with a single command. How to install, update and …
Crontab on Linux: how to schedule tasks automatically
The 5-field crontab syntax, practical backup and log-cleanup examples, the PATH mistakes that break the job, and when to …
PowerShell 7.6 LTS: what changed and how to migrate from 5.1
PowerShell 7.6 LTS arrived in March 2026 with .NET 10. Here are the main changes, how to install it via winget and why …
PowerShell for Beginners
A practical PowerShell guide for Windows users: essential cmdlets, the object pipeline, your first script, and why it's …