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Change Windows 8.1 Network Profile From Registry Public to Private or vice versa

When you face problems to change your network profile like

"find devices and content on windows 8.1 is missing"

"8.1 change network profile from public to private"

Or Other things like that

You can easily change this setting using registry.

1. Run regedit.exe as administrator
2. navigate to path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles
3. Find you desired network profile from subfolder (There is a GUID For Each Network profile Like {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx} you need check the ProfileName key)
4. change the Category sub key to 1 for private and 0 for public

View Internet Explorer 11 Cookies Using Powershell With simple script:

you can run the script below view your cookies without need to run applications so you'll be sure about malware and viruses in application.

soon I'll create the cookie manager script 

Tested on Windows 8.1 with IE11

dir "$([Environment]::GetFolderPath("Cookies"))\low" | %{
    $str=(cat $_.fullname);
    $q=New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Queue[string]" 
    $str|%{$q.Enqueue($_)}
    while($q.Count -gt 0 ){
    New-Object psobject -Property (@{
                                    Name=$q.Dequeue();
                                    Value=$q.Dequeue();
                                    Domain=$q.Dequeue();
                                    Flags=$q.Dequeue();
                                    Expire= [System.DateTime]::FromFileTime([long]$q.Dequeue()+[long]$q.Dequeue()*[math]::pow(2,32)) ;
                                    Creation=  [System.DateTime]::FromFileTime([long]$q.Dequeue()+[long]$q.Dequeue()*[math]::pow(2,32)) ;
                                    Delim=$q.Dequeue();
                                    Filename=$_.Name;
                                    }
                                    )
    }
    } | Out-GridView