Editing Windows Operating System (section)

== PowerShell ==

I would prefer if Microsoft used BASH instead of PowerShell.

[https://communary.net/2014/11/10/grep-the-powershell-way/ grep the PowerShell way]

Concatenate two or more files together using each file name (cat is alias for Get-Content and sc is alias for Set-Content):

<code>cat .\temp00.txt, .\temp01.txt | sc t.txt</code>

Concatenate two or more files using wildcard (be careful using this so your output doesn't match your wildcard case):

<code>cat .\temp*.csv | sc combined.csv</code>

'''Note''' Use Set-Content (alias sc) to preserve character encoding instead of > or >>.

=== HASH in PowerShell ===

<pre>> get-help Get-FileHash

NAME
    Get-FileHash

SYNTAX
    Get-FileHash [-Path] <string[]> [-Algorithm {SHA1 | SHA256 | SHA384 | SHA512 | MACTripleDES | MD5 | RIPEMD160}]
    [<CommonParameters>]

    Get-FileHash -LiteralPath <string[]> [-Algorithm {SHA1 | SHA256 | SHA384 | SHA512 | MACTripleDES | MD5 |
    RIPEMD160}]  [<CommonParameters>]

    Get-FileHash -InputStream <Stream> [-Algorithm {SHA1 | SHA256 | SHA384 | SHA512 | MACTripleDES | MD5 | RIPEMD160}]
     [<CommonParameters>]


ALIASES
    None</pre>

=== Disable SearchApp.exe ===

'''Run commands as PowerShell Admin'''

Temporarily disable SearchApp.exe. I had to run command over and over before it stopped autostarting. I disabled Microsoft Search in the Services window. This did not stop SearchApp.exe so I had to use PowerShell.

<pre>PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> taskkill /f /im SearchApp.exe
SUCCESS: The process "SearchApp.exe" with PID 9644 has been terminated.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> taskkill /f /im SearchApp.exe
SUCCESS: The process "SearchApp.exe" with PID 9284 has been terminated.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> taskkill /f /im SearchApp.exe
SUCCESS: The process "SearchApp.exe" with PID 11308 has been terminated.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> taskkill /f /im SearchApp.exe
ERROR: The process "SearchApp.exe" not found.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> taskkill /f /im SearchApp.exe
ERROR: The process "SearchApp.exe" not found.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> taskkill /f /im SearchApp.exe
ERROR: The process "SearchApp.exe" not found.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> taskkill /f /im SearchApp.exe
ERROR: The process "SearchApp.exe" not found.

PS C:\WINDOWS\SystemApps> move C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy.old</pre>