If you want to automate a task, just create a PowerShell script and schedule it. To know more, check out the instructions mentioned here.

The script shown above starts out by using the Start-VM cmdlet to boot a virtual machine named VM1. Once that command has been processed, PowerShell launches into a While loop.

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To start or stop a virtual machine in Hyper-V using PowerShell, run the following corresponding cmdlet. The command starts/stops the virtual machine VM-1 specified by the VMName parameter.

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Launching a PowerShell Script from Excel, Revisited We're going to build off my previous series to show how to further the communication channel between Excel and PowerShell.

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These are the text commands you need to restart or shut down your computer via command prompt or PowerShell in Windows.