PSCommander - Command your desktop with PowerShell

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I just published a new module to integrated with Windows. Execute PowerShell from desktop shortcuts, global hotkeys, context menus and file associations.

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This is awesome! Thanks for more extremely useful tools Adam!

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This looks great! I’d love to use something like this to push out custom and rapidly updatable functionality to our managed staff workstations. Is there a way to customize the tray icon and remove the Edit Config and Exit options from the tray context menu?

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Hi @sandy,

You’ll be able to edit the icon in 1.0.3 so not in the current version but the next.

You can hide the exit and edit config menu items with -HideExit and -HideConfig on New-CommanderToolbarIcon

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Thanks @Adam ! This might be a perfect solution for us. Thanks for coming up with all these awesome tools!

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Hey @Adam , another thing I think could be really helpful is the ability to make dynamic submenus. For example, if I could make an API call and update a submenu based on the result. Is that something feasible or on the roadmap?

For example, if I manage user permissions for network shares in a centralized application, I could then have a submenu that lists all the network shares that can be mounted. If I add a new network share, it could show up automatically as an option in the tray icon menu.

Thanks!

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You can use the -LoadMenuItems parameter of New-CommanderMenuItem to do this. PSCommander - PowerShell Pro Tools

That script block is invoked as the menu is opened so that you could load those dynamically.

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@Adam :drooling_face:

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Seemed like a good tool, I installed it right away.
Followed along with the video and worked fine.
I can’t get “Edit Config” to bring up the config.ps1 file. PSScriptPad doesn’t start.

PSScriptPad is in my path, if I go to powershell and type in psscriptpad it starts right up.

This is happening on 3 machines.

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Did you install it to the AllUsers scope?

We are tracking an issue where it seems like the config file won’t open in that case: PSCommander - Program Files install fails to open config file · Issue #89 · ironmansoftware/issues · GitHub

Other than that, I would recommend to work around this, you can create a file here:

$documents = [Environment]::GetFolderPath('MyDocuments')
$Folder = [IO.Path]::Combine($documents, "PSCommander")
$File = [IO.Path]::Combine($Folder, "config.ps1")

PSCommander doesn’t actually require the use of PSScriptPad and should refresh it’s configuration whenever the file is edited.

EDIT: We’ll be releasing a fix for this issue as soon as our expired code signing certificate has been renewed. :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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I did install it to AllUsers

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Ok. Yeah, you’re running into that bug then. You should be able to open the file in your documents folder manually and edit from there.

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I just added this which works great.

New-CommanderMenuItem -Text ‘Edit Config *’ -Action {
$Documents = [Environment]::GetFolderPath(‘MyDocuments’)
$Folder = [IO.Path]::Combine($Documents, “PSCommander”)
code $Folder
}

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This tool looks great.

Can we use a string of keystrokes for the Global Hot Key feature? I used to us AutoHotKey for things like expanding "mye " and "myp " into my email address and phone number respectively, or "vni " which would expand into a “vendor, not interested” template email pulling the recipient’s name into the header.

But AHK started to lag and having the power of PS would be amazing.

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Not possible at the moment but I love this idea. Let me play around with it.

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Which version of PS is it running?
Can it run PS7?

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It uses PowerShell 7. It uses the PS7 SDK and embeds the host.

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I have some modules I use everyday in my default powershell.
I expect I would need to import them before running any cmdlet in them.

	New-CommanderMenuItem -Text 'Default Reports' -Action {
		Import-Module DevOps.Config
		Import-Module DevOps.Credentials
		Import-Module DevOps.Utilities
		Import-Module DevOps.Reports
		
		Get-DefaultReports
	}

Not sure this is correct, but if it is :slight_smile: it doesn’t seem to be working.

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Seems correct. Can you try to see if it’s throwing an error and not reporting it for some reason?

New-CommanderMenuItem -Text 'Default Reports' -Action {
                try 
                {
		Import-Module DevOps.Config -ErrorAction Stop
		Import-Module DevOps.Credentials  -ErrorAction Stop
		Import-Module DevOps.Utilities  -ErrorAction Stop
		Import-Module DevOps.Reports  -ErrorAction Stop
		
		Get-DefaultReports
                } catch { $_ | Out-String | Out-File C:\temp.txt } 
	}
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Thanks for the tip, did find something on my part.
Will fix that and see how it goes.

Thanks