What if your PC could take care of boring tasks for you? With Windows PowerShell, it can. Here's how I use PowerShell to automate everyday repetitive tasks that I would be less keen to do otherwise.

Now to automate the administrative tasks, you will form statements in PowerShell using cmdlets, functions, variables, etc., and this process is called scripting.

PowerShell scripting doesn't have to haphazard. Here's how to tell PowerShell to build a script from the commands that you have already entered at the command line.

The Microsoft PowerShell Certification Bundle shows you how, with three courses on this powerful scripting language. Worth $600, the training is now only $19.

On Windows 11 (or 10), PowerShell is a command-line interface (CLI) to run commands and scripts to automate tasks and change settings on your device, similar to Command Prompt.