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Getting help

Getting help

- [Voiceover] Now before you start going down the road and running your first PowerShell commandlets, I want to spend just this video and show you how to use Help and have the built-in Help system that comes with PowerShell. PowerShell has a rich and robust help system that's actually at your fingertips as you're working with your PowerShell commandlets. One of those great things my dad always used to tell me is, You give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you teach him to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. And that's how I look at Help inside of PowerShell. So I'm gonna go ahead and bring up a PowerShell session and take a look at it. Now I'm actually gonna bring it up as an administrator. To do that, simply right click on your PowerShell icon and say Run As Administrator. You're gonna get your user account control coming up saying, yes, that's what I want to do, and now I'm in an administrative session of PowerShell. Now I'm just gonna move to the root directory of my C drive and…

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