Over the last few years, I have created a vast library of PowerShell scripts that I use to keep my servers healthy. These scripts do everything from monitoring disk health to helping me to reclaim ...

When choosing to administer VMware-based virtual machines (VMs), administrators have a few decisions to make when prepping their bare-metal hosts and configuring the guest OSes, the storage spaces, ...

Scripts, like programs and software, can be set so that they run during startup. Scripts may be executable commands, batch files or Visual Basic scripts that your business has developed and customized ...

The Linux expect command takes script writing to an entirely new level. Instead of automating processes, it automates running and responding to other scripts. In other words, you can write a script ...

You can use PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Windows and other operating systems, like organizing data, searching for files or fetching data from the Internet. You can't actually run ...

If you are building a robot, sensor platform, weather station then you don’t want the code to stop running when you disconnect from the terminal, and nohup is just the thing for you.In this how-to, we ...

This is a beginner’s guide to creating AutoHotkey scripts. AutoHotkey is a program that allows you to create a key combination for a task. You can call them macros or mini-programs. The scripts or ...

If you are using Firefox on your Windows PC, you can get much more than what web developers created for you on their web pages. Greasemonkey is a useful extension that helps you customize how you view ...

I have a script that I'd like to run when users login. This script requires local admin rights to the workstation and the user may or may not have this. If the login script runs under the user's ...