Today, shortly before weekend, I felt that pain again when seeing a PowerShell script. Somebody has literally raped the System.IO.DirectoryInfo across several pages and eternalised himself beyond anything related to aesthetics, technology or rationality. The aim of the script was to zip all the subdirectories of given folder one by one and push them to another drive with an ISO 8601-compliant timestamp prefix. To ease the pain, here’s my decades-old snippet. Literally just in three lines. For better customisation, only the variables are separated: Read more

Crashed services of a business software are inconvenient. If they occur more than once, it becomes annoying. If there is also a software supplier who is unwilling or unable to solve the problem, it gets complicated. A quick and pragmatic solution was needed shortly before the Easter holidays. If only there was not another obstacle in the way: It is all about Windows services. No progress with on-board resources Usually, modern operating systems provide an administrator with the necessary tools to control services. In Windows, it is the graphical snap-in services.msc in the Microsoft Management Console1, which has barely changed since NT4 Option Pack. You can set the start modes and up to three error handling modes: Read more