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## Use PowerShell Engine Event (OnIdle) to Update the PowerShell 
## Console Window's Title to have the current path and last command executed.
## For this to work Nicely add it to your PowerShell Profile.

## Subscribe to PowerShell.OnIdle Event
## Out to null to hide Register-EngineEvent output
$null = Register-EngineEvent PowerShell.OnIdle -Action { 
  ## Get Last Command ran from history
  $LastCommand = Get-History | Sort-Object -Property Id -Descending | Select-Object -First 1 -exp CommandLine
  ## Updated the console window's title to have the path and command.

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function Invoke-URLInDefaultBrowser
{
    <#
        .SYNOPSIS
            Cmdlet to open a URL in the User's default browser.
        .DESCRIPTION
            Cmdlet to open a URL in the User's default browser.
        .PARAMETER URL
            Specify the URL to be Opened.
        .EXAMPLE

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#Build Job Name to be unique
$JobName = "ExampleJob"
$JobNameCount = (get-job | Where-Object Name -like $JobName*).Count
$JobName = "$($JobName)_$($JobNameCount)"

#Define and Start job
$Job = Start-Job -Name $JobName -ScriptBlock { Start-Sleep 60 }

#Create Event to clean up job after complete
Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $Job -EventName "StateChanged" -Action { 

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$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"

$notificationTitle = "Notification: " + [DateTime]::Now.ToShortTimeString()

[Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastNotificationManager, Windows.UI.Notifications, ContentType = WindowsRuntime] > $null
$template = [Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastNotificationManager]::GetTemplateContent([Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastTemplateType]::ToastText01)

#Convert to .NET type for XML manipuration
$toastXml = [xml] $template.GetXml()
$toastXml.GetElementsByTagName("text").AppendChild($toastXml.CreateTextNode($notificationTitle)) > $null