Microsoft is finally bidding farewell to a tool that has been part of the operating system since Windows XP: the Windows ...

You can run the deGDID script on your computer to delete cached GDID keys and prevent Microsoft's servers from minting new ones in the background.

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Is Windows 11 secretly spying on you? A reverse engineer has dug into Microsoft's mysterious performance service to uncover ...

Microsoft released PowerShell scripts that let IT admins view, export, and delete Windows settings backup data through ...

Microsoft released advanced hunting queries (AHQs) and a PowerShell script to find and recover some of the Windows application shortcuts deleted Friday morning by a buggy Microsoft Defender ASR rule.

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As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...

Editor's note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article, and Reda Chouffani has expanded it. Even though administrators can accomplish many tasks with ad hoc PowerShell commands, learning how to ...