Pop up window with PowerShell

PowerShell popup with use of xaml for formatting the output. Enjoy! I know I did, I used this with a gpo login script to help remind users what to do...

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## creates the runspace $run = [RunspaceFactory]::CreateRunspace() $run.ApartmentState = “STA” $run.Open() ## opens PowerShell.exe $ps = {Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationCore}.GetPowerShell() $ps.Runspace = $run ## specify xaml formatting $ps.AddScript({     [xml]$xaml = @"     <Window         xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation'         xmlns:x='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml'         x:Name='Window' WindowStartupLocation = 'CenterScreen' Width = '1000' Height = '500' ShowInTaskbar = 'True' WindowStyle = 'None' AllowsTransparency = 'true'>         <Window.Background>             <SolidColorBrush Opacity= '0' ></SolidColorBrush>         </Window.Background>         <Grid x:Name = 'Grid' ShowGridLines='false' >             <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>                 <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>             </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>             <Grid.RowDefinitions>                 <RowDefinition Height = '*'/>             </Grid.RowDefinitions>             <Viewbox Stretch = 'Fill'>                 <Label x:Name='Content' FontWeight = 'Bold' Content = 'PowerShell Rules!' FontSize = '30' FontStyle = 'Normal' Foreground = 'Blue' />             </Viewbox>         </Grid>     </Window> "@     ## read xaml code     $reader=(New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader $xaml)     $Global:popup=[Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load( $reader )     ## sets right click to "Close Window"     $popup.Add_MouseRightButtonUp({$this.close()})     ## sets left click to "Drag\move Window"     $popup.Add_MouseLeftButtonDown({$This.DragMove()})     ## Always on top of all other windows     $popup.Topmost = $True     $popup.ShowDialog() }).BeginInvoke() | Out-Null

Cleanup WinSxS

Cleanup WinSxS with PowerShell, remove features on demand in Windows Server 2012.

001	Get-WindowsFeature | where-object{$_.Installed -eq 0 -and $_.InstallState -eq 'Available'}

001	Get-WindowsFeature | where-object{$_.Installed -eq 0 -and $_.InstallState -eq 'Available'} | uninstall-windowsfeature -remove

Bored?

The below script with go through a list of PowerShell links and open them each up one at a time within a single tab. Every 2 seconds a new article will appear -- when you find something good just hit [CTRL]+C to stop the script form continuing.

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$blog="http://www.matthewkerfoot.com/p/powershell-links.html" $ie = new-object -com internetexplorer.application $iwr = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $blog $links = $iwr.Links | Select-Object -skip 7 -ExpandProperty href foreach($l in $links){                         $ie.visible=$true                         $ie.navigate("$l")                                 while ($ie.Busy -eq $true){                                                              Wait-Event -Timeout 2                                 } }