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Adapter error counters
Read cumulative network-adapter packet errors and discards.
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25 practical automations
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See what is happening on your computer. Each guide includes full code, usage instructions, and ideas for making it your own.
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Battery charge
Show reported battery charge, runtime estimate, and status.
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Bounded ICMP latency
Send a fixed small number of connectivity checks to one selected host.
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Check one HTTP endpoint
Measure one bounded HEAD request status and response time.
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CPU utilization
Read CPU busy and privileged percentages per logical processor.
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Defender health
Read antivirus protection and signature timestamps without running a scan.
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Disk throughput
Read per-disk transfer rates and queue length.
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DNS lookup
Resolve one selected hostname and inspect its answers.
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Event error counts
Aggregate recent critical and error events by provider.
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Failed logon counts
Count Security event 4625 by hour without printing accounts or addresses.
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Listening processes
Join local listening TCP sockets to their owning process names.
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Low disk space
Flag mounted drive-letter volumes below a free-space threshold.
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Measure process CPU activity
Measure CPU-time increases over an interval and normalize by machine CPU count.
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Memory-heavy processes
Rank processes by resident working-set memory and show private memory.
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Network throughput
Read received and sent byte rates for network interfaces.
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Pagefile usage
Compare allocated, current, and peak pagefile usage in MiB.
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Personal certificate expiry
Find current-user personal certificates approaching expiry.
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Physical memory pressure
Compute available physical memory and warn below a selected percentage.
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Print queues
Collect pending print-job state and age without cancelling jobs.
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Process handle counts
Rank processes by current operating-system handle count.
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Process thread counts
Rank processes by current thread count.
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Required services
Check a list of required service names without starting them.
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Restart history
Read planned-restart and unexpected-shutdown records.
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System uptime
Show the boot timestamp and elapsed uptime.
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TCP state counts
Summarize local sockets by connection state.
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