Another reason Win7 is going to be a darling of IT - 246 Windows 7 diagnostic PowerShell scripts

Windows PowerShell Blog - Kudos to the Win7 Diagnostics Team

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Now this is the PowerShell blog not the Win7 fanboy blog so there has to be some tie-in to PowerShell right?  And you are correct - there is.  The Win 7 Troubleshooting Center is all built upon PowerShell.  In fact, if you want to have some fun go to a Win 7 box and type this into PowerShell:

ps> dir $env:windir\diagnostics *.ps*1 -Recurse

You'll find some pretty cool stuff in those scripts.

Kudos to the Win7 Diagnostics team for really moving the ball forward!”

Development in a Blink - 246 PowerShell scripts for Windows 7 Diagnostics

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There are 246 Win7 diagnostic scripts that have been delivered. Here are the number of scripts by folder for doing diagnostics.

Count Name                          
—– —-                          
   33 Power                         
   30 AERO                          
   26 Printer                       
   19 IEBrowseWeb                   
   19 Audio                         
   16 Performance                   
   16 Device                        
   15 Maintenance                   
   13 IESecurity                    
   12 Search                        
   11 HomeGroup                     
   10 Networking                    
    7 WindowsMediaPlayerPlayDVD     
    6 WindowsMediaPlayerConfiguration
    4 WindowsMediaPlayerMediaLibrary
    4 PCW                           
    3 DeviceCenter                  
    2 WindowsUpdate

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The fact that PowerShell 2 is baked into Win7 is cool. These add a think layer if yummy icing to the cake (ummm… cake… ).

I just wish I had a Win7 install handy so I could check these out right now…  ;)