Useful/Control-WinApps

A very neat script that I found on github.com/sergueik/powershell_selenium.

It implements the following Windows classes: WinAPI, Win32WindowEvents, and some UI elements, such as Win32Window, Win32CheckBox, Win32Label, Win32ListBox, Win32TextBox, Win32Button.

WinAPI and Win32WindowEvents are particularly useful, because they enable interaction with other Windows applications, directly from PowerShell, using the Windows API.

Usage:

./Control-WinApps.ps1
$window = [System.Windows.Win32Window]::FromProcessName("explorer")
$window.Hwnd

Useful/PS-WinHelpers

A collection of useful PowerShell functions and classes that I use in my scripts, such as:

• Wrappers around built-in PowerShell functions, for making them more efficient. (eg. the registry functions)
• Others are re-implementaitons of PowerShell DSC functionality (eg. Install-Font, New-Shortcut, etc.). Desired State Configuration is, regrettably, suprisingly unsuable on desktops, because it requires admin to run and needs the user's credentials.
• Other useful functions like logger, checking for admin rights, etc.

Overview

Function	Description
IsAdmin	Returns true if the current user is an administrator.
Invoke-ToAdmin	Restarts the current script as administrator
Install-ModuleIfNotPresent	Installs a module if it's not already installed.
Get-ScriptPath	Returns the path of the current script.
Write-DebugLog	Writes a message to the debug log, detects function name and stack depth automatically
Start-SleepOrKey	Sleeps for the specified amount of time, or until a key is pressed.
Start-SleepUntilTrue	Pause execution until a condition is met or a timeout is reached.
Get-SubstedPaths	Get a Hashtable of the currently Substed drives
Get-RealPath	Returns the real path of a file or folder if the current path is on a substed drive
Get-Timestamp	Returns a timestamp string in the format "yyyyMMdd-HHmmss"
Get-RegValue	Reads a value from the registry.
Set-RegValue	Writes a value to the registry.
Register-PowerShellScheduledTask	Registers a PowerShell script as a scheduled task.
New-Shortcut	Creates a .lnk shortcut. Added workaround for unicode.
Set-ShellStaticVerb	Sets a static verb for a file extension.
Invoke-SHChangeNotify	Notifies the shell of changes and a refresh is needed.
New-FileAssoc	Creates a new file association.
New-FileAssocExt	Creates a new file association, extended function.
Get-EnvPathsArr	Returns the %PATH% environment variable as an array, supports User and Machine scopes
Add-UserPaths	Adds a list of paths to the current user's %PATH% environment variable.
Remove-UserPaths	Removes a list of paths from the current user's %PATH% environment variable.
Update-PathsInShell	Updates the %PATH% environment variable in the current shell.
Get-ExeVersion	Returns the version information of an executable.
Set-FolderComment	Sets a Windows Explorer comment on a folder. (not fully working)
Install-Font	Installs a font from a file for the current user.
Get-DropboxInstallPath	Returns the path of the Dropbox data sync folder.
Get-StreamContent	Returns the content of an NTFS stream as a string.
Set-DropboxIgnoredPath	Sets a path to be ignored by Dropbox
Get-DropboxIgnoredPath	Checks if a path is ignored by Dropbox.

Useful/Scripts

Useful scripts that I always like to have around, preferably in $PATH.

Add-UserPath.ps1

Adds a path to the current user's %PATH% environment variable.

Relative path will be resolved before adding.

Useful, for example, for adding the current folder to the path.

Add-UserPath .

Add-UserPath c:\tools\scripts

ccd.ps1

A replacement for the cd command in certain cases.

It opens a Windows Forms folder picker, and changes the current directory to whatever is selected.

Handy when you're in a deep directory structure, so you don't have to do many dirs and cds.

After chaning the location, you can go back to the previous path with popd (The script uses Push-Location in the background.)

ccd
# do stuff..
popd

code..cmd / code..sh

Launches VS Code in the current folder when you mistyped code. instead of code .

code.

[code.ps1]

Resolves the path of $args[0] if it's on a substed drive, so that Git Gutters will work properly.

code .

ConEmu.cmd

Opens a ConEmu shell in the current folder, or the specified directory. (Similar to code .)

ConEmu

ConEmu .

ConEmu /src/MyProject

gRefreshToken.ps1

Generates a fresh GCP OAUTH token and drops it in the current git repo's root as token.secret

It's a convention that I use in my projects.

gRefreshToken

k.cmd

Kubectl alias for Windows.

k get pods

ll.cmd

ls -l alias for Windows.

ll

ll /

mk.cmd

minikube + minikube kubectl alias for Windows.

If the first parameter is specific to minikube, it will run minikube %*.

Otherwise, it assumes it's a kubectl command, and runs minikube kubectl -- %*.

mk start
mk get pods

Refresh-Path.ps1

Refresh $env:PATH in the current shell to whatever is set in Registry.

Useful when new apps have been installed, and you don't want to close your existing shells.

Refresh-Path

Toggle-TarkMode.ps1

Toggles Windows 10's Dark Mode.

Toggle-TarkMode

watch.cmd

watch alias for Windows.

Set %DELAY% for a custom delay, default is 3 seconds.

set DELAY=5
watch dir c:\

Useful/Regs

Useful registry files that I like to have around.