PS2EXE Alternatives

PS2EXE reviews and mentions

• Powershell from a batch file, with pipes/quotes
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 9 Jul 2023

  If you have powershell scripts for your Users you can also try ps2exe. https://github.com/MScholtes/PS2EXE

• How to create a single exe file to run/select multiple powershell scripts
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 30 Mar 2023

  PS2EXE -- This is what I've used in the past to create a exe from a PS script. Would suggest reading the readme on Github to understand the possible behavior changes while using it.

• Is there a way to securely pass a password within a Configuration Item script?
  1 project | /r/SCCM | 2 Feb 2023

  Something like using this: https://github.com/MScholtes/PS2EXE Although I'm sure there are other utilities out there that do something similar. It's not 100% absolutely secure, because I'm pretty sure that .exe can be de-compiled and read, but at least the password wouldn't be in a .log file (if passed as a parameter), nor clearly in a downloaded {random guid}.ps1 in the CM folder.

• Launching an app with a script
  2 projects | /r/Citrix | 24 Jan 2023

  PS2EXE

• Powershell script that will open and minimize teams window every 9 minutes to stay green. Alternative to a mouse jiggler.
  1 project | /r/overemployed | 18 Dec 2022

  To run with PowerShell save this to a text file with a .ps1 extension. Then right click and run with PowerShell. Orrrr...how I did it is I converted the .ps1 to .exe using ps2exe here https://github.com/MScholtes/PS2EXE/blob/master/README.md. Then just run the exe and just a black terminal screen shows up blank and script runs in the background. To stop the script just close out the black terminal screen. The exe way is better if someone monitors your screen from time to time because it doesn't show what's really going on.

• Kleine in-house Tools mit GUI: Wie erstellen? (Sprache/Framework/Tools)
  3 projects | /r/de_EDV | 11 Dec 2022
• How do you guys create executables from your scripts?
  3 projects | /r/PowerShell | 27 Nov 2022

  As for how: Been using ps2exe for small app for a client. It's ok, but that's when you already got a script and wanna pack it into exe: https://github.com/MScholtes/PS2EXE

• Is it possible to lock script from being edited?
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 22 Nov 2022
• Get-Item - PowerShell Doen't Work in EXE file
  1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 10 Nov 2022

  Right from the README.MD...

• WTF is happening here?? I am not using pc at all!
  2 projects | /r/pcmasterrace | 15 Oct 2022

  Yes and no. Maybe this theoretical miner would stop mining to drop GPU usage but who knows what else it's doing or data it's exfiltrating. I at one point (for fun) wrote a key-logger entirely in PowerShell and was wrapped as an executable and ran under the name "Windows Software Update" or something like that... it was a long time ago. The process itself would still be there but malware can be pretty good about disguising itself as other things. Keep in mind what I said about looking for the taskmgr process is probably the most basic way to do this. If someone is writing a legitimate sophisticated malware they're probably not writing it in as a simple .NET FX console app and you're better off just nuking your system and starting fresh.

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