Microsoft introduced the new Outlook last year. Many users, including myself, are not fond of the new Outlook. In early 2025, I discovered that Microsoft plans to automatically install the new Outlook on new Windows 11 machines. Additionally, users will be forced to switch to the new Outlook after opening the classic Outlook app a few times. What’s even more frustrating is that even if you uninstall the new Outlook app, it will reappear after some time. In this blog post, I’ll share a method to disable this automatic upgrade behavior.
Manually extracting and summing prices embedded in file names for a large number of files is time-consuming and is easy to make errors. This blog post introduces a PowerShell script designed to automate this process efficiently. The script scans a specified directory, identifies file names containing prices using a regex pattern, extracts these values, and calculates their total, making it an ideal solution for tasks like invoice management.
