Sep 26, 2012 · How to pause execution for a while in a Windows batch file between a command and the next one?

Mar 16, 2008 · Here's a quick one for ya. Perfect kitchen timer. Who doesn't have a laptop with PowerShell on it in their kitchen? start-sleep (60*9); write-host (" a"*4) Start-Sleep works in seconds, …

I would just add that order of commands causes that alias sleep takes precedence before function sleep - thus you would eventually get your prompt back (after 300 secs in first run).

I'd like to be able to put my laptop to sleep from the command line. According to Microsoft, the Win32_Battery WMI class has a SetPowerState method that looks like it should be able to do this, …

I don't use Exchange, so I am not familiar with cmdlets regarding this, but what I would do is trying to find a command that checks if the resource exists and if not, goes into a holding cycle until it exists. …

Nov 20, 2010 · 162 Periodically I notice PowerShell seems to take forever to finish doing whatever it is I told it to do until it occurs to me to "wake it up" by pressing enter.

Sep 6, 2014 · If I have a script that I need to run against multiple computers, or with multiple different arguments, how can I execute it in parallel, without having to incur the overhead of spawning a new …

Sep 17, 2020 · I am replacing some Windows Server 2008 R2 boxes with new Windows Server 2019 boxes. Both sets are mostly administered over RDP. The new 2019 set kicks RDP sessions back to …

Sometimes PowerShell stops sending output until I press enter. Why? (2 answers) Closed 10 years ago. Anyone else have problems when running a PowerShell script, where the script just hangs in one …

I have scheduled the script to execute using task scheduler on events such as sleep/hibernate (kernel power event id 42) and shutdown (user32 event id 1074). The script is initiating on these events but it …