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you dont need those brackets within the set-itemproperty parameters

See the syntax here
https://ss64.com/ps/set-itemproperty.html

In your set-ItemProperty, you need to give it the -path where you want to set the value.

Just dropping this here in case it is useful to someone. If you have a Sophos client that is failing to pick up policy changes, this will give it a kick. After restarting it may take 10 minutes or so for the new policy to refresh fully. It has to be run 'As Admin'. @echo off :: run this as administr...

Hi Aacini I have just updated the link. That should have been going to the deltree page here https://ss64.com/nt/deltree.html Arguably it should be categorised under the How-to pages rather than in the main A-Z + categorized list but the reason I created that page is that there were SO MANY searches...

Some answers to this here If you're using PowerShell [Core] version 6 or higher, you get BOM-less UTF-8 files by default https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40098771/changing-powershells-default-output-encoding-to-utf-8/40098904#40098904 PowerShell is much better suited to the task of dealing with e...

For the uninitiated, Wordle presents the player with a daily puzzle in which a five-letter word must be guessed with hints regarding correct letters in the correct (or incorrect) places.

https://gist.github.com/huytd/6a1a6a7b3 ... 47e3d01513

Quite a few people have been getting '503 Service Unavailable' returned when visiting SS64.com since around Jan 21st. This is caused by a bug in the Google provided cookie consent service which I disabled on Saturday 22nd. (It returns a fatal server error which fail2ban then interprets as a maliciou...

I think what is happening here is that the carriage return/newline are converted into a space If we try this (for %a in (red green blue) do @(echo %a)) | find "e">demo.txt it adds those spaces, the same as clip - so the problem is in the pipe not in the clip utility. In PowerShell: PS C:\>...

The A-Z index pages now have keyboard shortcuts from [a] to [z] to quickly scroll up / down. The detail pages have [s] for Syntax and [e] to jump to Examples, [a] will go to the top of the page. There is also [\] to set focus on the site search box. This also involved some CSS changes so if the sear...

Thanks for the heads up! That robocopy script failed for me on the latest Windows 10, but this version looks promising @echo off for /f "tokens=1-6 delims=/: " %%a in ('robocopy "|" . /njh ^| find ":"') do ( set "_year=%%a" & set "_month=%%b" &am...