Click on that line, right-click Windows PowerShell, and choose Run as Administrator. To start PowerShell as an Administrator from Windows 10, click Start and scroll down the list of apps to Windows PowerShell. Beginners, though, are best served by the PowerShell Console, a simple text interface reminiscent of the Windows command line, or even DOS 3.2.

Advanced users will go for the full-blown GUI, known as the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). JuanPablo Jofre details how to install WMF 5.0 (Windows Management Framework), which includes PowerShell, in addition to tools you won’t likely use when starting out, on MSDN. Installing PowerShell on Windows 7 isn’t difficult, but it takes extra care-and you need to install. (Win10 Anniversary Update has 5.1, but you won’t know the difference with the Fall Update’s 5.0.) Windows 8 and 8.1 ship with PowerShell 4, which is good enough for getting your feet wet. If you’re using Windows 10, you already have PowerShell 5-the latest version-installed. The first thing you’ll need is PowerShell itself. Consider it a step-by-step transformation from PowerShell curious to PowerShell capable. The following guide is aimed at those who have run a Windows command or two or jimmied a batch file. PowerShell is powerful, but it needn’t be intimidating. Net class to run with providers? And why do all the support docs talk about administrators-do I have to be a professional Windows admin to make use of it? Is it a scripting language, a command shell, a floor wax? Do you have to link a cmdlet with an instantiated. PowerShell is an enormous addition to the Windows toolbox, and it can provoke a bit of fear given that enormity. After years of relying on the Windows command line and tossed-together batch files, it’s time to set your sights on something more powerful, more adaptive-better. If you’ve tried to do something fancy with Win7/8.1 recently, PowerShell’s probably come up, too. If you’ve wrestled with Windows 10, you’ve undoubtedly heard of PowerShell.

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