Fix: Battery Icon and/or Volume Control Missing From Windows 10 Taskbar

I came across a rather weird problem today where my taskbar was missing the icons for the volume control and battery meter: My first attempt to fix this was to check the related system settings: Open the run dialog (Windows-key + R) and type 'ms-settings:notifications' Click on 'Turn system icons on or off' In my …

PowerShell Error – “Select-Object : Cannot convert System.Object[] to one of the following types…”

I came across a bug (at least I would assume this a bug) in PowerShell while using the Select-Object (alias select) cmdlet in conjunction with a mix of literal and variable arguments for the Property parameter (attempting to use Get-ChangeLog with a multiple column identifier). Select-Object's Property parameter accepts either an array of objects, or …

“Please wait while windows configures Microsoft Visual Studio…” when starting Excel

I got this dialog ("Please wait while windows configures Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013") on every Excel (2010) start up shortly after I had installed Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition. In my case it delayed the Excel start-up for several minutes. In order to get rid of the quite annoying dialog I just created a …

Group-Object “Wildcard characters are not allowed in …”

I recently came across a situation where I wanted to group a custom object based on a property that contained a question mark. Running the above resulted in the error message "group : Wildcard characters are not allowed in "test?".". To make Group-Object work with the property name that contains a wildcard character the property …