Let Powershell Sort Them Out

February 23rd 2008

If you’ve got a program, Firefox for example, that regularly orphans its processes:

  1. Get powershell
  2. Run ps <process name> | kill

No more orphans!

Posted by Rob under Tools | 1 Comment »

Cycle your Network Adapter with Powershell

January 31st 2008

My desktop goes to sleep after 1 hour of idling. When it wakes, the network adapter is pretty grouchy! Post nap network performance for file shares hosted by the desktop is absolutely terrible and completely ineffective. Installing the latest drivers didn’t help.

Disabling and enabling the adapter does help. Manually reseting a network adapter in Vista, however, gets tired (pun intended) real fast.

Thanks to this post from David Aiken, when my desktop awakes from a power nap, I revive the network with a power script!

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