Therefore, if I wanted to launch my Hello.ps1 script from the Run prompt, then I could do so by using this command: PowerShell –File "C:\Scripts\Hello.ps1" ...

Click Apply and OK. Double-click on Run Windows PowerShell scripts first at computer startup, shutdown. Select the Enabled option. Click Apply and OK. Let’s check out these steps in detail.

PowerShell is a command-line tool designed by Microsoft to run commands and scripts to change settings and automate tasks. In a way, it’s similar to Command Prompt.

If you want to run a specific script, then either in the command line or in the Start Menu you can type "powershell.exe -File" followed by the file that contains the script.

To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds.

Scripts in PowerShell are basically just text files with the special filename extension of ps1. To create a script, you enter a bunch of PowerShell commands in a sequence in a new Notepad file (or ...

With the "sleep 60" command, the script pings at 63 seconds, then 65 seconds later, then 62 seconds later, and so on. After 24 hours, the whole script has drifted forward by 2 or 3 minutes.