Exe cannot be used for opening the file. And therefore once more I did not get rid of the whole Commander as default opener of .source. Joel CoehoornJoel Coehoorn 28.6k1717 gold badges9797 silver badges145145 bronze badges 1 In PS (for TCP) in place of parsing netstat just use get-nettcpconnection -- https://jamesg726jar1.wikiexcerpt.com/user