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I would like to close all open windows. This will not minimize the windows but the script will close all windows even if it is minimized. Is there a way to do this in a batch program or powershell? use this in powershell: Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.MainWindowTitle -ne ""} | stop-process -note: this close powershell console or ise too and can't end his job! (get-process | ? { $_.mainwindowtitle -ne "" -and $_.processname -ne "powershell" } )| stop-process this way only powershell windows is still alive but the last command in your script can be stop-process powershell note: this no affect

<tickets type="array"> <ticket> <assigned-user-id type="integer">123</assigned-user-id> <closed type="boolean">true</closed> <creator-id type="integer">177522</creator-id> <number type="integer">306</number> <state>resolved</state> <tag nil="true"/> <title> title text 1 </title> <updated-at type="datetime">2012-03-14T13:13:11+11:00</updated-at> <user-id type="integer">96438</user-id> <version type="integer">3</version> <user-name>Username</user-name> </ticket> </tickets> I am a Powershell newbie and find a question on xml and format-table. Given above xml file. If I run below script to display

I'm looking for a solution to the The OS handle's position is not what FileStream expected. Do not use a handle simultaneously in one FileStream and in Win32 code or another FileStream. exception that would also work on scripts called within the script containing "the fix" . For the purposes of this question, say that I have two scripts: foo.ps1 # <fix> $bindingFlags = [Reflection.BindingFlags] "Instance,NonPublic,GetField" $objectRef = $host.GetType().GetField( "externalHostRef", $bindingFlags ).GetValue( $host ) $bindingFlags = [Reflection.BindingFlags] "Instance,NonPublic,GetProperty"

Quite simply, how do I initialize the params part of my Powershell Script so I can have a command line arguments like Get-Foo [-foo1] <foo1Arg> [-foo2 <foo2Arg> [-bar <barArg>]] So the only time I can use -bar is when foo2 has ben defined. If -bar was not dependent on -foo2 I could just do [CmdletBinding()] param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$foo1, [string]$foo2, [string]$bar ) However I do not know what to do to make that dependent parameter. My reading of the original question is slightly different to C.B.'s. From Get-Foo [-foo1] <foo1Arg> [-foo2 <foo2Arg> [-bar <barArg>]] The

I'm trying to make a simple swap function in PowerShell, but passing by reference doesn't seem to work for me. function swap ([ref]$object1, [ref]$object2){ $tmp = $object1.value $object1.value = $object2.value $object2.value = $tmp } $a = 1 $b = 2 $a, $b swap ([ref]$a) ,([ref]$b) $a, $b This SHOULD work, but no... Output: 1 2 1 2 What did I do wrong? manojlds Call like this: swap ([ref]$a) ([ref]$b) The mistake of using , is described in the Common Gotchas for PowerShell here on Stack Overflow . Shay Levy By the way, PowerShell has a special syntax to swap values, and there isn't a need to

I was trying to find a way in powershell to remove more than one white space. But what i found is how to do it in php. " Removing more than one white-space " There will be similar regular expression may available . How to acheive the same in powershell? My string is like this Xcopy Source Desination Some lines may contain more than one white space between Source and destination. If you're looking to collapse multiple consecutive whitespace characters into a single space then you can do this using the -replace operator: '[ Hello, World! ]' -replace '\s+', ' ' ...returns... [ Hello, World! ] The