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 ...

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free and simple yet powerful Windows scripting language. It doesn’t get a lot of press these days, but ...

You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

Ubuntu 25.10 no longer includes the Startup Applications tool, so learn how to autostart scripts and run custom commands at ...

Windows Sandbox, which is a lightweight virtual desktop, can now have Microsoft Store installed in it using a simple PowerShell script.

The Windows Task Scheduler is a boon for a group of users who like to schedule different tasks and automate them. I use it all the time to schedule periodic execution of scripts and some programs to ...

I am working on a potential project where I'd like to have a main script run various external scripts which would be user (not me) created. These scripts would return data in a specified ...

This post will show you how to open Python PY files in Windows 11/10. PY is a script file written in Python programming language. In this post, we have covered some free tools to open Python scripts ...

Automating mundane tasks keeps your attention focused on the work that matters.

I need a little help on a pet project - I run a small network of about 50 computers for an architects office. At night, they run a distributed rendering service using 3DSMax6. It's a service that is ...