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This PowerShell function will help Windows administrators use the output of “query user” or “quser” as a PowerShell array. query user: raw output “query user” or “quser” output in Windows looks like this: 1 2 3 USERNAME SESSIONNAME ID STATE IDLE TIME LOGON TIME username1 1 Disc 19:12 9/22/2023 8:38 AM username2 console 2 Active …
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If Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) — a protocol used to communicate problems with data transmission — is disabled, PowerShell’s Invoke-WebRequest can be a helpful alternative to use to monitor of a website is up or down. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 …
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If you own a Roku streaming media player or Roku TV and want to disable the advertisements that occupy one-third of the Home screen, you will discover that Roku does not provide you a way to opt out. According to How-To Geek, Roku makes more money from ads than it does selling hardware ($740 million …
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft should have updated its Defragment and Optimize Drives tool to do the inverse by maintaining at least six-bits of separation from neighboring data. It says “You can fragment your drives to help your data maintain a safe social distance (at least a six-bits of separation). Only drives on or connected …
Google Fi is an MVNO telecommunications service that provides telephone calls, SMS, and mobile broadband using cellular networks operated by Sprint, T-Mobile, and others. Fi has easy-to-understand pricing, can be paused or canceled without penalty, allows up to 9 additional data-only SIM cards to share the same plan, and charges only for the data consumed. …
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