powershell-functions-007

PowerShell Functions 007
Author: Peter Cullen Burbery
PowerShell version: 7.0+ (Core only)
Repository: GitHub
PowerShell Gallery: PowershellFunctions007

Overview

This module provides a collection of utilities for advanced PowerShell scripting on Windows, including environment configuration, system path management, time/date handling, Windows Explorer behavior tweaks, and more.

The module requires PowerShell 7+ (Core edition) and will throw an exception if imported into older or incompatible environments.

Installation

From PowerShell Gallery

Install-Module -Name PowershellFunctions007

From Local Clone

# If you've cloned the repository manually
Import-Module ./PowershellFunctions007/PowershellFunctions007.psd1

Functions

Time & Date Utilities

• Get-IanaTimeZone – Maps the current Windows time zone to the IANA time zone name.
• Get-IsoWeekDate – Returns ISO week format: YYYY-Www-DDD.
• Get-IsoOrdinalDate – Returns ordinal date format: YYYY-DDD.

File Explorer Utilities

• Restart-FileExplorer – Restarts the Windows Explorer process.
• Bring-BackTheRightClickMenu – Enables Windows 10-style context menu in Windows 11.
• Use-Windows11RightClickMenu – Restores the default Windows 11 right-click context menu.

Environment & PATH Management

• Add-ToPath – Adds a normalized path to the system PATH with deduplication.
• Remove-FromPath – Removes a path from the system PATH with normalization.
• Clean-Path – Cleans the system PATH by deduplicating and expanding all variables.
• Get-PowershellPath – Displays the current PATH as an indexed, formatted list.

Security & Configuration

• Add-DefenderExclusion – Excludes a folder (or the parent folder of a file) from Microsoft Defender.
• Enable-LongFilePaths – Enables support for file paths longer than 260 characters via registry tweak.

System Information

• Get-PowerShellVersionDetails – Detects feature availability in the current PowerShell session (e.g., ternary operators, parallelism).
• Get-PrimaryIPv4Address – Returns the most appropriate non-virtual, connected IPv4 address based on interface preference (e.g., Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Tailscale).

File & Directory Utilities

• Get-FileSize – Calculates the total size (in bytes) of a file or all files within a directory.
• Get-FileSizeHumanReadable – Same as Get-FileSize but returns size in a readable string (e.g., "12.345 MB").

📁 Directory Structure

The PowershellFunctions007/ folder contains the .psd1 manifest and .psm1 module.

📄 License

This module is shared under the MIT License.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This is a development and educational project. All code is provided in good faith and intended for system automation, productivity, and learning purposes.

If you're a rights holder and want attribution changed or material removed, please contact the maintainer.

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Maintained with care by Peter Cullen Burbery.

📘 Citation

If you use this module in your work, please cite the following:

Peter Cullen Burbery. (2025). PowerShell Functions 007 [Software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16699957

I plan to configure Powershell actions to publish in the future to make publishing easier.