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Windows PowerShell

PowerShell is a command console and scripting language. If you’re a

programmer, PowerShell lets you write your own simple programs, called
cmdlets (“commandlets”) that can perform all kinds of automated drudgery
for you: copy or move folders, manipulate files, open or quit programs, and

so on.

You harness all this power by typing up scripts in PowerShell’s command
line interface (which means no mouse, no menus, no windows—all text,

like in the DOS days). In short, PowerShell is not for the layperson. If
you’re an ambitious layperson, however, a Google search for PowerShell
tutorial unveils all kinds of websites that teach you, step by step, how to

harness this very advanced tool.

Windows Security

Here’s Windows 10’s built-in antivirus software. Details are in Chapter 11.

Windows System

This folder in your Start menu is the home for seven techie tools that you
may actually use from time to time.

Command Prompt

Command Prompt (in your Windows System folder) opens a command line
interface: a black, empty screen with the time-honored C:> prompt, where

you can type out instructions to the computer. This is a world without icons,
menus, or dialog boxes; the mouse is almost useless.

Of course, the whole breakthrough of Windows was that it eliminated the

DOS command line interface that was still the ruling party on the