<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0a0f3476-c114-4922-9a22-8e2c9635a7ac/02617FC9-0829-400B-8D36-88CB6F38C44B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/miah/archive/2007/09/07/replacing-cmd-with-powershell.aspx#4852746" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/miah/archive/2007/09/07/replacing-cmd-with-powershell.aspx#4852746" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.msdn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.msdn.com/miah/archive/2007/09/07/replacing-cmd-with-powershell.aspx#4852746"><H1 class="entryviewheading">Replacing CMD with PowerShell</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.msdn.com/miah/archive/2007/09/07/replacing-cmd-with-powershell.aspx#4852746"><P>First off, I really like <A mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx" target="_blank" title="Windows PowerShell" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx">Windows PowerShell</A>.  I have been using it for a while now and I find it extremely powerful.  I now use it for every command line thing that I do.  (I would also recommend the <A mce_href="http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX" target="_blank" title="PowerShell Community Extensions" href="http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX">PowerShell Community Extensions</A>.  These add some very useful features to PS.  One that I particularly enjoy is that they integrate the Visual Studio path so that I can do everything from PS without having to open a VS Command Prompt).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.msdn.com/miah/archive/2007/09/07/replacing-cmd-with-powershell.aspx#4852746"><P>So of course, how cool would it be if I could do the "Start-&gt;Run-&gt;cmd" thing (or Windows+R-&gt;cmd.exe) and get PS instead of the typical Windows command prompt?  This keystroke combination is forever embedded in my head, as I am sure it is the same for most of you.<BR /> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.msdn.com/miah/archive/2007/09/07/replacing-cmd-with-powershell.aspx#4852746">And now, when the cmd.exe process is started, we get the much more powerful PowerShell instead!</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/02617FC9-0829-400B-8D36-88CB6F38C44B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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