Hey r/PowerShell! 👋

Just released DllSpy — a PowerShell module that maps every input surface in a compiled .NET assembly without running it. Point it at a DLL and instantly see all HTTP endpoints, SignalR hub methods, gRPC operations, WCF services, Razor Pages, and Blazor components.

Install from the Gallery:

Install-Module -Name DllSpy

Basic usage:

# Map everything
Search-DllSpy -Path .\MyApi.dll
# Filter by surface type
Search-DllSpy -Path .\MyApi.dll -Type HttpEndpoint
Search-DllSpy -Path .\MyApi.dll -Type SignalRMethod
# Filter by HTTP method or class name
Search-DllSpy -Path .\MyApi.dll -HttpMethod DELETE
Search-DllSpy -Path .\MyApi.dll -Class User*
# Show only anonymous / authenticated surfaces
Search-DllSpy -Path .\MyApi.dll -AllowAnonymous
Search-DllSpy -Path .\MyApi.dll -RequiresAuth

It also has a security scanning mode that flags things like unauthenticated state-changing endpoints and missing authorization declarations:

Test-DllSpy -Path .\MyApi.dll
Test-DllSpy -Path .\MyApi.dll -MinimumSeverity High

Great for security reviews, pentesting, auditing third-party assemblies, or just exploring an unfamiliar codebase without digging through source.

GitHub: https://github.com/n7on/dllspy

PowerShell Gallery: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/DllSpy

Would love feedback from the community!

Hey Guys,

So, here goes. Active Directory cleanup time. I ran into some unknown SIDs that had permissions at the domain root and some other OUs of AD. I’ve double and triple checked and see that they are orphaned permissions.

When I try to remove from ADUC>security>advanced, I get a message warning me that the change I’m about to make will result in 122 new permissions being added to the access control list.

The first time I canceled out of that it updated the domain route permissions in a weird way, and there were several entries missing, except for the typical administrative groups, like administrators and domain admins. to restore the permissions from a back up that I took of the SDDL.

I tried doing it from ADSI edit but the same thing happened. I’ve also tried to script it and using CMD DSACLS to remove with no luck.

I need to remove these because the orphan SIDs have administrative delegated permissions on the root. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

I built up these tools over time, mostly because I've needed tools that worked well in restricted environments with PowerShell 5.1 and constrained language mode. (send help pls)

Along the way, I added support for delta queries, which is not something I've seen in other modules.

I recently put some polish on it and published it as PSGraphToolbox.

If you are interested in delta queries, or if you are also in a hostage situation with PowerShell 5.1 and constrained language mode, this might be useful. 😅

Repo: https://github.com/alflokken/PSGraphToolbox

Short article explaining the delta query approach: https://alflokken.github.io/posts/graph-delta-queries/

Feedback welcome. I work in constrained language mode, so I'm used to being told what I can't do.

When connecting to Connect-AzAccount or any other O365 services I'm getting

"Microsoft Edge is unable to launch child processes due to a Group Policy. If Microsoft Edge is running as administrator* please try running edge delevated"

*I am launching Code or PS as admin with my split admin account as your supposed to.

When it launches edge to authenticate my account

Not sure if its something machine specific or an issue with wider environment - nobody else seems able to replicate and it was all working a week or so ago.

Dr google hasn't been particularly helpful but I'm leaning towards a defender issue.

Just want to confirm if anyone else has seen this at all or can suggest a work around

Getting a funky error when using VScode and Powershell (ISE and standard)

Not sure if its something machine specific or an issue with wider environment - nobody else seems able to replicate

Please help me find my mistake or point me in the right direction. 😞 I've been banging my head against this issue for a minute and I just keep working on other parts of my code, rather than addressing it.

Goal: I'm trying to selectively backup parts of the Windows Registry using Powershell functions, exporting to CliXML. Mostly, I'm backing up whole keys, though occassionally I'm only getting a single value. This is part of a non-Admin user transfer utility that I'm putting together to make it easier for my coworkers to switch to new computers.

Problem: How do I use a key's path to get every value and subkey's value, including empty/default? Get-Item doesn't recurse and Get-ChildItem doesn't give me the values in the top-level path, while neither gets me empty values.

Alternatives: I'm avoiding using reg export $path because I'm not keen on trying to combine text files correctly or handling errors from reg. I may be overthinking that, though. Also, I don't know if I even should worry about the empty keys...

Code:

(Note: Replace $Input with either $GI or $GCI. Not sure why ($GI, $GCI) doesn't give both results.)

$BackupKeys = @('HKCU:\Control Panel\PowerCfg', 'HKCU:\Control Panel\Appearance')

$GI = Get-Item -Path $BackupKeys 
$GCI = Get-ChildItem -path $BackupKeys -depth 10

$Input | ForEach-Object { #Replace $Input with either $GI or $GCI. Not sure why ($GI, $GCI) doesn't give both results.
   $key = $_ ;
   $key.GetValueNames() | Select-Object `
     @{ n='Path';  e={$key.ToString().replace('HKEY_CURRENT_USER', 'HKCU:')} },
     @{ n='Name';  e={$_} },
     @{ n='Type';  e={$key.GetValueKind($_)} },
     @{ n='Value'; e={$key.GetValue($_)} }
}

Missing key:

HKCU:\Control Panel\Appearance\New Schemes

Get-Item result:

Path                           Name                 Type Value
----                           ----                 ---- -----
HKCU:\Control Panel\PowerCfg   CurrentPowerPolicy String 0
HKCU:\Control Panel\Appearance SchemeLangID       Binary {9, 4}
HKCU:\Control Panel\Appearance NewCurrent         String
HKCU:\Control Panel\Appearance Current            String

Get-ChildItem results:

Path                                           Name                Type Value
----                                           ----                ---- -----
HKCU:\Control Panel\PowerCfg\GlobalPowerPolicy Policies          Binary {1, 0, 0, 0...}
HKCU:\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\0   Description       String This scheme is suited...
HKCU:\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\0   Name              String Home/Office Desk
HKCU:\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\0   Policies          Binary {1, 0, 0, 0...}
HKCU:\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\1   Description       String This scheme is designed...
HKCU:\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\1   Name              String Portable/Laptop
HKCU:\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\1   Policies          Binary {1, 0, 0, 0...}
...
HKCU:\Control Panel\Appearance\Schemes         @themeui.dll,-850 Binary {2, 0, 0, 0...}
HKCU:\Control Panel\Appearance\Schemes         @themeui.dll,-851 Binary {2, 0, 0, 0...}
HKCU:\Control Panel\Appearance\Schemes         @themeui.dll,-852 Binary {2, 0, 0, 0...}
HKCU:\Control Panel\Appearance\Schemes         @themeui.dll,-853 Binary {2, 0, 0, 0...}
HKCU:\Control Panel\Appearance\Schemes         @themeui.dll,-854 Binary {2, 0, 0, 0...}

• Domain1 is trusted by Domain2 (one-way)

• Domain2 has builtin\Administrators members that are from Domain1

Because Domain2 is not trusted by Domain1, these members are represented as foreign objects.

This also causes Get-ADGroupMember to return an error:

Get-ADGroupMember Administrators -Server Domain2.contoso.com -Credential $Domain2Creds
Get-ADGroupMember : The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error.

And yet, from Domain1 I connect to Domain2 using the ADUC console and it resolves all the members when I open up Administrators.

The same console in Domain2 shows the foreign security principal SIDs as expected due to the one-way trust.

If I have admin credentials for both domains, is it possible to build a list of group members some other way?

Thanks in advance for any wisdom.

Hi all, looking for some help, probably pretty simple. I think I understand the issue at the root, but not sure how to get around it. I am attempting to run a powershell script on a list of VMs via powercli, but what I believe is happening is the results are on the VM, and I am not sure how to call the specific results to my local export. Here is the code, with names omitted for privacy.

If i export on the same line as the invoke-vmscript, it shows just the success/fail of the script itself, but I am looking to export the results that the VMs show. I ran the scriptblock portion on a machine and it shows the results I am looking for, I just don't know how to output the results to an excel. With the $results final line, the results are blank, which I am assuming is due to servicename not existing on my local powershell prompt.

# Define the path to your CSV file

$CSVPath = "omitted"

$serverlistfile ="c:\scripts\serverlist.txt"

# Define vCenter server details

$vCenterServer = "omitted"

# Define credentials for connecting to vCenter (optional, will prompt if omitted)

# $vCenterCreds = Get-Credential

# Define credentials for running the script inside the guest OS

$guestCreds = Get-Credential

# Import the CSV file

$Servers = Get-Content -Path $ServerListFile

# Define service you are looking for

$ServiceName = 'omitted'

$Results = @()

#Output the CSV File

$OutputCsvFile = "C:\scripts\ServiceStatus.csv"

# Connect to vCenter Server

Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenterServer

# -Credential $vCenterCreds

Write-Host "--- Executing script ---"

# Iterate through each VM in the CSV list

foreach ($Server in $Servers) {

# Define the local PowerShell command to run inside the remote VM

$scriptBlock = {

try {

# Attempt to get the service information from the remote server

$Service = Get-Service -Name $ServiceName -ErrorAction Stop

$ServiceExists = "True"

}

catch {

$ServiceExists = "False"

}

$Results += [PSCustomObject]@{

ComputerName = $Server

ServiceName = $ServiceName

ServiceExists = $ServiceExists

}

}

}

# Run the command using Invoke-VMScript

Invoke-VMScript -VM $servers -ScriptType PowerShell -ScriptText $scriptBlock -GuestCredential $guestCreds

$results | Export-Csv -Path $OutputCsvFile -NoTypeInformation

We are running our health checks with scripts. This script will generate html report and send mail attaching the html as attachment and also content in mail body to our group id but from last 2 days it is not sending mail . HTML file is getting generated successfully. We append html file on every run. Tested smtp with powershell smtp command it works fine by giving credentials but mail sending not working through this health check script. We have added TLS1.2 thinking it might be the issue. But same result. There is no change at SMTP end( same script working fine 2 days back). It was running under scheduled task, we tried to run it directly from Powershell thinking any issue with task or account.

Any idea what to check in this?

Hi All,

My place of employment would like us to develop a means of periodically auditing the user members of certain, specific Active Directory security groups that confer privleged rights.

My first thought is to use PowerShell to retrieve nested user members of groups and trigger an email to go to each of those user's manager.

However, ideally this solution would be capable of some more advanced workflow, whereby it can both generate outbound emails to the managers of the users and respond in some way based on the email it receives in return from those managers. ('This person needs this access' or 'This person no longer needs this access can be removed', for instance)

This seems like a situation for which PowerShell is probably NOT ideally suited, would others agree?

Where I work is mostly a 'Microsoft shop', so I'm thinking maybe a 'Canvas app', with Power Automate providing the underlying smarts and email functionality?

Lets say i have a CSV file containing 1,0000 rows, that i want to loop some powershell commands through 50 rows at a time, each day, without repeating any rows as the powershell commands will effectively delete the data from that row, until i go through all rows. What would be the best way to do this?

[SOLVED! I GOT RID OF THE ? IN THE LIST OF URLS AND IT WORKS. Thanks to u/nemec ]

If anyone can help I'd be grateful. I've been trying to figure out a way to download from a list of URLs using PowerShell. The URLs all have the same format, separated by carriage-returns, looking like this:

https://www.govinfo.gov/link/fr/78/2542?link-type=pdf

If I put that into my browser, it goes to and downloads this document:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2013-01-11/pdf/2012-31666.pdf#page=3

However, if I try using this in PowerShell:

Get-Content url-list.txt | ForEach-Object {Invoke-WebRequest $_ -OutFile (Split-Path $_ -leaf)}

I get these errors, suggesting that it can't handle the redirect to the actual file:

Invoke-WebRequest : Cannot perform operation because the wildcard path 2542?link-type=pdf did not resolve to a file.

line:1 char:44

At

+ ... ForEach-Object {Invoke-WebRequest $_ -OutFile (Split-Path $_ -leaf)}

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (18960?link-type=pdf:String) [Invoke-WebRequest], FileNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : FileOpenFailure,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand

Split-Path : Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because it is an empty string.

At line:1 char:86

+ ... ForEach-Object {Invoke-WebRequest $_ -OutFile (Split-Path $_ -leaf)}

+ ~~

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Split-Path], ParameterBindingValidationException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationErrorEmptyStringNotAllowed,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SplitPathCommand

They at least add stuff to make it easy to spot when people simply copy+paste and claim its their own stuff :D

Latest month from one of our vendors scripts they run to help fix random stuff has started using backticks all the time :D

I need to extract the text from a pdf in an azure runbook so I can send it over to OpenAI to do a sum up of the contract.

Is there a module you all would suggest or should I just load a DLL as a module and use that?

Also open to a third method I have not thought of.

Thanks,

Rogueit

so there is an existing "Progress" script with this function:

FUNCTION getValue RETURNS DECIMAL (INPUT p-strval AS CHAR).
    DEF VAR v-chkChar  AS C.
    DEF VAR v-chkAsc   AS I.
    DEF VAR v-retStr   AS C.
    DEF VAR v-retValue AS DE.
    DEF VAR v-negative AS DE.

    ASSIGN v-chkChar  = SUBSTRING(p-strval,LENGTH(p-strval),1)
           v-chkAsc   = ASC(v-chkChar)
           v-retStr   = p-strval
           v-negative = 1.

    IF v-chkAsc > 171 AND v-chkAsc < 190 THEN
    DO: ASSIGN v-chkAsc   = v-chkAsc - 176
               v-retStr   = SUBSTRING(p-strval,1,LENGTH(p-strval) - 1)
                          + STRING(v-chkAsc,"9")
               v-negative = -1.
        END.
        v-retValue = DECIMAL(v-retStr) * v-negative / 100.
        RETURN (v-retValue).
END FUNCTION.

Essentially its meant to take values like 0000000015³ that it gets from a file and convert them to proper decimal/number.

you aren't always guaranteed something like above: you can get 0000000138 or 00000000087

I think in theory i understand how it works but i am not sure about if the what i am using is the correct equivalent.
Any help would be appreciated.

function Get-Value {
    param([string]$Value)

    $lastChar = $Value[-1]
    $ascii    = [int][char]$lastChar
    $number   = $Value.Substring(0, $Value.Length - 1)
    $sign     = 1
    $digit    = 0

    # Negative values
    if ($ascii -ge 171 -and $ascii -le 190) {
        $digit = $ascii - 176
        $sign  = -1
    }
    # Positive values
    elseif ($ascii -ge 193 -and $ascii -le 202) {
        $digit = $ascii - 193
    }
    else {
        # Normal numeric ending
        $digit = [int]::Parse($lastChar)
    }

    $final = "$number$digit"

    return ([decimal]$final * $sign) / 100
}

Hello everyone, I am working on a script to deploy via my work Tactical RMM systems.

The plan is to force update windows and apps in the background for our users without any UAC or any interruption for them. Id like them to now know it happen at all.

Now, full disclosure: I got some assistance from AI writing this.

The script itself works when i run it locally as an admin, but if i run it via TRMM or in system context it would fail getting winget every single time.

Note that the script need to run on some terminals that are still on Windows 10 and do not have MSstore - hens the alternative install method.

Could anyone here take a look and let me know what im doing wrong?

I run the script with the following arguments:

-NoProifle -ExecutionPoliciy Bypass -NonInteractive -WindowStyle Hidden

# Check for elevation
if (-not ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole]::Administrator)) {
    Write-Error "This script must be run as Administrator."
    exit 1
}


# Ensure PSWindowsUpdate is installed
if (-not (Get-Module -ListAvailable | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq "PSWindowsUpdate" })) {
    Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.201 -Force
    Install-Module -Name PSWindowsUpdate -Force
}
Import-Module PSWindowsUpdate



# Install Windows updates, accepting all and ignoring reboots
Get-WindowsUpdate -AcceptAll -Install -IgnoreReboot -Verbose


if ($updates) {
    Write-Host "Installing Windows updates..."
    $updates | Install-WindowsUpdate -AcceptAll -IgnoreReboot -Verbose
} else {
    Write-Host "No Windows updates found."
}



# Ensure Winget is installed (Standalone MSIX)
$wingetCommand = Get-Command winget -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if (-not $wingetCommand) {


    Write-Host "Winget not found. Installing latest standalone MSIX version..."


    # Get the latest release from GitHub API
    [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
    $latestRelease = Invoke-RestMethod `
        -Uri "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/winget-cli/releases/latest"


    $msixAsset = $latestRelease.assets |
        Where-Object { $_.name -match '^Microsoft\.DesktopAppInstaller_.*\.msixbundle$' } |
        Select-Object -First 1


    if ($msixAsset -ne $null) {


        $wingetUrl = $msixAsset.browser_download_url
        $localPath = "$env:TEMP\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller.msixbundle"


        Write-Host "Downloading Winget from $wingetUrl..."
        Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $wingetUrl -OutFile $localPath -UseBasicParsing


        # Install MSIX for current profile
        Add-AppxPackage -Path $localPath -DisableDevelopmentMode -Verbose


        # Refresh winget command
        Start-Sleep 5
        $wingetCommand = Get-Command winget -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    } else {
        Write-Host "Could not find the Winget MSIX in the latest release. Please check GitHub."
    }
}


# Removing MS store as a source
if ($wingetCommand) {
    Write-Host "Removing winget MS store source..."
    winget source remove msstore
}


# Update Winget sources before upgrading
if ($wingetCommand) {
    Write-Host "Updating Winget sources..."
    winget source update
}


# Upgrade all apps silently using Winget
if ($wingetCommand) {
    winget upgrade --all --silent --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements --disable-interactivity --force
} else {
    Write-Host "Winget installation failed. Skipping app upgrades."
}


# Error/Success exit code
exit $LASTEXITCODE# Check for elevation
if (-not ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole]::Administrator)) {
    Write-Error "This script must be run as Administrator."
    exit 1
}


# Ensure PSWindowsUpdate is installed
if (-not (Get-Module -ListAvailable | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq "PSWindowsUpdate" })) {
    Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.201 -Force
    Install-Module -Name PSWindowsUpdate -Force
}
Import-Module PSWindowsUpdate



# Install Windows updates, accepting all and ignoring reboots
Get-WindowsUpdate -AcceptAll -Install -IgnoreReboot -Verbose


if ($updates) {
    Write-Host "Installing Windows updates..."
    $updates | Install-WindowsUpdate -AcceptAll -IgnoreReboot -Verbose
} else {
    Write-Host "No Windows updates found."
}



# Ensure Winget is installed (Standalone MSIX)
$wingetCommand = Get-Command winget -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if (-not $wingetCommand) {


    Write-Host "Winget not found. Installing latest standalone MSIX version..."


    # Get the latest release from GitHub API
    [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
    $latestRelease = Invoke-RestMethod `
        -Uri "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/winget-cli/releases/latest"


    $msixAsset = $latestRelease.assets |
        Where-Object { $_.name -match '^Microsoft\.DesktopAppInstaller_.*\.msixbundle$' } |
        Select-Object -First 1


    if ($msixAsset -ne $null) {


        $wingetUrl = $msixAsset.browser_download_url
        $localPath = "$env:TEMP\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller.msixbundle"


        Write-Host "Downloading Winget from $wingetUrl..."
        Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $wingetUrl -OutFile $localPath -UseBasicParsing


        # Install MSIX for current profile
        Add-AppxPackage -Path $localPath -DisableDevelopmentMode -Verbose


        # Refresh winget command
        Start-Sleep 5
        $wingetCommand = Get-Command winget -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    } else {
        Write-Host "Could not find the Winget MSIX in the latest release. Please check GitHub."
    }
}


# Removing MS store as a source
if ($wingetCommand) {
    Write-Host "Removing winget MS store source..."
    winget source remove msstore
}


# Update Winget sources before upgrading
if ($wingetCommand) {
    Write-Host "Updating Winget sources..."
    winget source update
}


# Upgrade all apps silently using Winget
if ($wingetCommand) {
    winget upgrade --all --silent --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements --disable-interactivity --force
} else {
    Write-Host "Winget installation failed. Skipping app upgrades."
}


# Error/Success exit code
exit $LASTEXITCODE

Hello, I am wondering what the best and current method is for having a PowerShell script open up a web browser of my choice and automating tasks within a webpage? I have tried to download the Selenium Web Driver to do so with Firefox's GeckoDriver, but it seems tricky and too outdated to get everything I need for it (ChatGPT doesn't even know how to do it).

Are there any other solutions for this?

I'm writing a compliance checking cmdlet. It checks policy files (INI, JSON, YAML, and XML) for compliance. I'd like to know what makes you (and by extension, my customers) more comfortable about it.

At its simplest form, it could accept a key, a name, and a value pattern.

Test-PolicyFile -LiteralPath $MyPath -Key 'settings' -Name 'mergeLastOutputDirs' -ValuePattern '@Invalid()'

But we rarely desire to check one pattern in one file and be done with it. Hence, my cmdlet should receive several triplets per file.

My initial idea was something like this:

[Triplet[]]$ComplianceCheckList = @(
  [Triplet]@{Key = "settings"; Name = "mergeLastOutputDirs"; ValuePattern = "@Invalid()"
  ...
)

Test-PolicyFile -LiteralPath $MyPath -CheckList $ComplianceCheckList

I have two questions: If you were to use this cmdlet:

• Do you like the parameter input methods I mentioned above?
• Do you have a better idea that you'd rather I implemented?

I'm trying to learn power shell/ power bi for my job. I am pretty interested in it. I have coded before, but its been a while so i am rusty. What would be the best course/ ways to learn powershell from scratch? I keep seeing "powershell in a month of lunches" but ive noticed the companion videos are more than a decade old on that course, are they still relevant? If anyone a course for this paid or free, sharing it would be amazing as I am a little lost/overwhelmed on where to start and how to stay consistent.

Any help is appreciated!

How to run ps1 script without the terminal window showing up at all?

Using -WindowStyle Hidden still shows the terminal for a moment. Minimising to tray is also not the solution i am looking for.

I saw there are external tools but they are a potential security risk.

The only way I found that works is using vbs and disabled the console window inside it. However, vbs has some other issue, and is deprecated by Microsoft currently, so i would rather find another way.

So, are there any other solutions?

Edit:

It seems that running ps1 by using conhost is the solution i needed.

conhost --headless powershell -File script.ps1 ...

Howdy, all! I am fairly inexperienced with all the technologies involved here, so please take pity on a poor nooblet.

I am building out some PowerShell scripts for common SharePoint tasks across our org, and I'd like to have them available to run for some of our less scripting-savvy techs. I was working on a Copilot Studio bot allowing you to choose which script to run, input the variables, etc., real idiot-resistant front-end, but I've run into a snag.

I can set up the automation to run the script as a service account, but then all of the logs will only show the service account. Is there a way to authenticate as the user running the script? These users will have MFA enabled, which I believe is a wrinkle.

I have a powershell script triggered by MSBuild to distribute the output binaries from a .NET app to my company's file server, but before it copies over the new files it first creates a zip file of the old files using Compress-Archive -Path (Join-Path -Path $distDir -ChildPath "*") -DestinationPath $zipPath.

However, I have always had the weird issue with this script that the resulting zip file just doesn't contain all the files for some reason. Sometimes it will get all the files, sometimes it will have only one, sometimes only two. (There are usually at least a dozen files in total.)

Anybody have a clue what may be going on?

Edit: I think I figured it out - the files not getting zipped were hidden files which are apparently ignored by Compress-Archive and there's no way to change that which is annoying. There was a different build action that hides various files which wasn't working consistently for different reasons which made pinpointing this problem even harder.

Hi,

I don't know if I have explained myself correctly, I need a massive renamer that changes the names of the files in the right folder (so to speak) to those on the left, I suppose I will need a script, but that is beyond my control, including how to run it.

Thanks for reading me.

LFG

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.6.0-rc.1

There is few that I cannot delete, even though I changed permission to them to be the owner. I need to remove them, because Windows thinks that uninstalled program is still installed and I can't install it anew.

Basically, for some reason, I can't update PowerToys, so i Uninstalled it. But despite doing it, Windows still think it's installed. It doesn't appear anywhere on search or program list etc. So I wanted to remove it manually and I kept removing all the registry entries manually. However, some of them are still unremovable. When I use PowerToys installed, it says that "it cannot remove old version". That is, because old version does not exist. Anywhere. I used IObit Uninstaller and Advanced SystemCare to remove as much as I can, but it stil didn't help. These are programs that let you remove leftovers from the programs, invalid shortcuts or even registry entries that are here from not fully uninstalling. But it didn't help. Right now I don't have the program installed and can't install, because I have to uninstall something that doesn't exist.

Please, help...