Check out this walkthough by Lee Holmes, fellow Softie and author of Windows PowerShell Cookbook: for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM V3 .

On an internal PowerShell scripting DL the question was posed as to how one would get a list of applications with firewall exceptions. Here was the answer that I sent: function getfwexceptions { $fwmgr = ( new - object -com hnetcfg.fwmgr).localpolicy...

The internal wireless on one of my laptops (an HP Pavillion dv9005us which appear to have a recall ) decided to stop working sometime back. I had already sent this thing back to have the system board replaced once before because the LAN connection lost...