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Over the last few years, I have created a vast library of PowerShell scripts that I use to keep my servers healthy. These scripts do everything from monitoring disk health to helping me to reclaim ...

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Q: My Dell runs Windows 10 and is only one year old. For a while, I was getting a message on it reading, "Not responding due to long running script." I called everyone for help — my ISP, the ...

So I've written some (rather crude) scripts in PHP that run on our intranet under apache 2.<BR><BR>Now they call alot of shell commands to do some back end lifting which take some considerable ...