Most IT admins use PowerShell for scripting and automation, but it's not just for IT specialists—anyone dealing with messy ...

Microsoft Windows' PowerShell tool is a powerful scripting and administration environment that's largely replaced the traditional Windows command line, which dates back to MS-DOS. You can start a ...

One reason that I've stuck with WSL on Windows, to the point that I install it on every new Windows machine I get, instead of ...

Method 2: Launch PowerShell from elevated command prompt If you have an elevated command prompt already open, you can launch a PowerShell shell within it by simply typing ' powershell ' and ...

Command-line utilities were built with these streams in mind. PowerShell, on the other hand, understands these streams but has its own as well. When invoking command-line utilities from PowerShell, ...

Windows 8.1 brought a few changes to the handy Win+X menu, including a new Shut Down option and the addition of PowerShell shortcuts. If you're more of a command prompt user, though, you can bring ...

On Jan. 17, 2018, Microsoft's Scott Hanselman asked Visual Studio developers if they would like a PowerShell prompt with pre-set PATH and Environment variables baked right into the IDE. They said yes.

But PowerShell is a very different, strange animal, and it has powerful features that go way beyond what WSH and the Command Prompt offer. I show you what I mean in the following sections.

Windows PowerShell is a newer program that's similar to Command Prompt. And in some versions of Windows 10, it replaces Command Prompt in the menus you'd usually use to open it.

Crescendo amplifies the command-line experience of the original tool to include object output for the PowerShell pipeline, privilege elevation, and integrated help information.