Category Archives: Powershell

Powershell: Some basics accessing the BCDstore by WIM

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here are some starters for accessing the bcd store from powershell by using WMI.

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Windows: Using Windows text to speech feature with powershell

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Windows has a builtin feature to convert text to speech and play it over the speakers. This can be used in powershell by using the System.Speech namespace.
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XML: Selectnode XPath query independend from namespace

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i got the following xml structure and want to select just the the “Data” node with the attribute “CommandLine” without defining a namespace object first.
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Powershell: Encrypt and decrypt strings with the host key

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each Windows machine has it’s own host key. This can be used to encrypt data which are only decrypted by this computer.

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Powershell: UDP Client and Server

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these UDP client and server and simply used for testing if a specific UDP port is open

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