Command prompt

I don't see the advantage of using PowerShell. Looks like a lot of mess to go through to do the same thing with a simple admin command prompt. Thanks anyway ...

Hi All

I have followed Brinks tutorial and changed my `shell prompt` back to `command prompt` which I`m more familiar with and works fine for me now, so thanks to all as always for very quick and interesting responses.

Rich

TexasBandit said:

I don't see the advantage of using PowerShell. Looks like a lot of mess to go through to do the same thing with a simple admin command prompt. Thanks anyway ...

Start using some powershell and you will see the advantage. For example, lets say you are at command line and wonder what processes are chewing up your CPU. You could launch task manager, or from powershell you could run the following and get the top 10 processes
get-process|sort CPU -desc|select-object -first 10

Want to know which process is taking the most memory, just change CPU to ws
get-process|sort ws -desc|select-object -first 10

Want to know how many instances of chrome are running;
(get-process |Where-Object {$_.ProcessName -eq "Chrome"}).count

Want to kill all of the running chrome
get-process |Where-Object {$_.ProcessName -eq "Chrome"}|stop-process -force

Are you watching a log file and waiting for something to happen and reopening over and over again in notepad?
get-content -path "C:\Windows\logs\logfile.txt" -tail 10 -wait

Start , Settings ,Personalization , Taskbar

turn off “Replace Command Prompt with Windows PowerShell in the menu when I right-click the start button

Job done :)