PoshTip #58 – How to Check File Version and Description?

When you browse a directory, you will see a tons of files, dll, exe, and so on… And especially in the Windows folder. But how to know if these files are legitimate?

Thanks to PowerShell, you can easily show version and description for each file that exists in the folder. Let’s how to perform this task:

PS >  gci C:\windows\System32\*.* | select Name, @{ label = 'Description'; Expression = { $_.VersionInfo.FileDescription }}, @{ la
bel = 'Version'; Expression = { $_.VersionInfo.FileVersion }} | Out-GridView -Title 'Description and Version info'

Thanks to the “description” column, you will get more information about these files:

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