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Hey, PowerShell Guy ! How Can I Monitor Event Log Messages for Specific Words?

The PowerShell Guy — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:40:21 GMT

In the Hey Scripting Guy article : How Can I Monitor Event Log Messages for Specific Words? , a WMI eventwatcher

Ade — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:16:12 GMT

Can PAUSE be used to pause a running application if not how can I pause a running application using powershell.

Thanks in advance.

Anselm — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:17:30 GMT

Isn't it more elegantly to get the valid values for an enum using the following code?

[System.Enum]::GetNames(<type>)

In this case:

[System.Enum]::GetNames([System.Management.Automation.Host.ReadKeyOptions])

Chris Patti — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:20:48 GMT

Great article!

In PowerShell 2 CTP3 I get:

Press any key to continue...Exception calling "ReadKey" with "1" argument(s): "The method or operation is not implemented."

So, I solved the problem by just calling .ReadKey with no arguments instead.

Joe Arauzo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:00:35 GMT

I'm getting a similar error, but only when I run my script within Powershell ISE (Win 7 Pro).

Press any key to exit

Exception calling "ReadKey" with "1" argument(s): "The method or operation is not implemented."

At C:\Users\jma6a\Scripts\HAMemCheck.ps1:31 char:32

+ $null = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey <<<< ("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

Otherwise, it runs fine in a Powershell console.

If I remove the arguments as Chris Patti suggested, I don't receive the error but it does not pause.

Any ideas?