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The powershell tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's PowerShell command-line shell and scripting language across Windows and cross-platform environments. Recent discussions include PowerShell 7.6.5 servicing updates with WDAC fixes, ARM64 support, and packaging changes, plus the Teams PowerShell 7.9 module introducing WAM default authentication and removing Shifts cmdlets. Threads also explore PowerShell's role in Windows administration, such as checking camera and microphone usage via registry, understanding MSIX app removal behavior, and adapting to WMIC deprecation in Windows 11 builds. For IT professionals and developers, the tag highlights practical scripting, security hardening, and automation topics relevant to enterprise Windows environments.
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    Three Windows 11 Commands Worth Using—With Safer Limits

    Command-line advice for Windows 11 is often presented as a shortcut: run one line, fix a problem, move on. That can be useful, but safer maintenance is more conditional. Three commonly recommended actions—updating applications with WinGet, removing an Appx package associated with Web Experience...
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    Windows Event Viewer: Create Event-Triggered Tasks Safely

    Windows 10 and Windows 11 can turn a recurring Event Viewer entry into an automated response: launch a program, run a PowerShell script, record diagnostic data, or hand work to an existing monitoring tool the moment Windows writes a matching event. The built-in Attach Task To This Event command...
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    Windows 10 Automating network connection in Windows

    Is it possible to make a Windows app which will enable wifi network connection simply by clicking a desktop icon? This would assist an elderly user whose wifi connection is frequently disconnected*, and who finds manual reconnection difficult. The app would silently enable wifi, connect to the...
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    How WSL 2 VHDX Files Grow and Reclaim Windows Space

    A WSL 2 distribution can appear comfortably empty from inside Linux while still occupying a much larger amount of storage on the Windows drive. That is not necessarily a fault in Linux, Windows, or File Explorer. It is a consequence of the virtual disk format WSL 2 uses—and of the difference...
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    Windows Terminal settings.json: Back Up and Restore Profiles

    Windows Terminal keeps its user-created profiles, key bindings, color schemes, startup behavior, and appearance preferences in a small configuration file named settings.json. Backing up that file before a reset, clean Windows installation, or PC migration preserves the part of Terminal that is...
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    TerminalFix ClickFix Campaign: Windows Defense Guide

    A convincing “verify you are human” page can be more dangerous than a conventional malware download when it persuades an employee to run the command themselves. Microsoft’s August 28, 2026 research on the TerminalFix campaign describes just such a chain: a fake Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA on a...
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    Windows 11 File Explorer Adds MB/GB Units, Still No Folder Sizes

    Windows 11’s File Explorer still leaves folder sizes blank in its Details view, but MakeUseOf’s broader complaint needs an update: Microsoft has already changed one of the three cited behaviors in current Windows Insider builds, while the other two are rooted in compatibility boundaries that...
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    Kimsuky Uses Chrome Remote Desktop, AnyDesk for Persistence

    A Kimsuky campaign documented by South Korean security firm Enki WhiteHat gives Windows administrators a concrete reason to treat unauthorized remote-support software as an incident lead, not an inventory nuisance. The operation used OneDrive-hosted Windows shortcut files to establish a...
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    Win11Debloat Replaces NoRestartExplorer with SkipExplorerRestart

    Win11Debloat’s August 24, 2026 release is primarily a reliability update for people who use the PowerShell debloating tool beyond a one-off home-PC cleanup. Version 2026.08.24 adds safeguards around registry backup and restore, makes app-removal failures more visible, bounds WinGet uninstall...
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    WindowsBackupAdmin Deletes All User Settings Backups

    Microsoft has published the WindowsBackupAdmin PowerShell module and companion scripts to let IT administrators inspect, export, and permanently delete users’ Windows settings backup data without assembling raw Microsoft Graph calls themselves. The practical catch is more important than the...
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    WindowsBackupAdmin Deletes All User Backup Data via Graph Beta — Megathread

    Microsoft has published WindowsBackupAdmin 1.0.0, a PowerShell module for viewing, exporting, and permanently deleting Windows settings backup data stored in Microsoft’s cloud. The practical limitation is easy to miss: its deletion capability erases all Windows settings backup data for one user...
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    Windows OpenSSH: Fix Git SSH Passphrase Prompts

    Windows 10 and Windows 11 can keep a Git SSH key available through the built-in OpenSSH Authentication Agent, eliminating the passphrase prompt that normally appears on every git fetch, pull, or push. The important qualification is that Git must be invoking the same Windows ssh.exe that can...
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    Teams Plans Meeting Scam Reporting for October 2026

    Microsoft plans to add an in-meeting reporting control to Teams in October 2026, giving organizers and attendees a direct way to flag suspected impersonation, phishing, scams, vishing, and other malicious behavior during or after a meeting. The Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry, ID 569207, is marked...
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    Windows 11 Build 29648 Removes WMIC in Early 2026 Test

    Windows 11 Insider Preview build 29648.1000 removes the wmic.exe command-line utility from Microsoft’s Experimental (Future Platforms) branch, turning a long-running deprecation notice into a compatibility test for the earliest Windows builds. Neowin reported the flight on August 17, and the...
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    Microsoft Teams Soft-Deletes Empty, Guest-Only Private Channels

    Microsoft Teams administrators have passed the remediation deadline for two classes of private channels that Microsoft says cannot move to its updated private-channel infrastructure: channels with an empty roster, and channels populated only by guests without an in-tenant owner. MakeUseOf...
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    PowerShell 7.6.5 Deep Dive: WDAC Fix, Security Hardening, Smaller Packages, and ARM64 Support

    PowerShell 7.6.5 is a servicing, security, and release-engineering update rather than a feature release. Microsoft published it on August 14, 2026, less than four weeks after 7.6.4. The official comparison spans 28 commits from 11 contributors and changes 57 files, while the curated release...
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    OneDrive Photos: No Standalone Uninstall Until September 2026

    Windows 11 users who want OneDrive Photos gone today have a narrow set of real choices: hide its shortcuts, or uninstall the entire OneDrive sync client. There is no supported standalone uninstall for the new photo experience at present, because it is delivered inside the OneDrive installation...
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    Windows 11: Check Last Recorded Camera and Microphone Use

    Windows already records camera, microphone, and location access more precisely than its Settings pages expose, but the registry trail is a last-use record, not the complete surveillance log described in a recent Neowin walkthrough. It can show when a tracked app last started and stopped using a...
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    Claude Code Auto Mode Becomes Default for Pro, Max, Team Aug. 14

    Claude Code will make its classifier-driven Auto Mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team accounts on August 14, 2026, shifting the product’s safety model away from per-command human approval and toward automated policy decisions. The New Stack first reported the rollout, which leaves Enterprise...
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    Windows 11 MSIX Uninstall: Why Removed Apps Stay on Disk

    Removing a Microsoft Store-style app from Windows can take it out of Start, Settings, and the current user’s app list while leaving the package payload on disk for another user or a dependent component. The distinction is not a bug in the Uninstall button; it is the intended MSIX deployment...