Windows 7 RTM and Powershell ?
Hi I'm a little bit confused. I have just downloaded Windows 7 RTM from technet. And it comes with Powershell v1. Wasn't supose to come with powershell v2 ? or it will be included in october ? Thanks 4 reply and sorry if this is not the right place to post this questionMCSA / MCTS
August 7th, 2009 7:37pm
Windows 7 RTM includes Windows PowerShell 2.0More info: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell/Carey Frisch
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August 7th, 2009 7:48pm
But it doesn't. I have a copy of Windows 7 Enterprise RTM installed right infront of me and all I have access to is Powershell 1.0. Perhaps you can verfiy this:When I bring up the details on the powershell.exe I get Product/File version: 6.1.7600.16385, is that 2.0? Because if it is, it's sitting in a directory labeled v1.0 and it does not have any of the additional features powershell 2.0 was supposed to have. I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise RTM Build 7600Dan
August 19th, 2009 2:17am
Hello DanTkto check the version you have to use the registry not the folder structureTo check whether version 1.0 or 2.0 of PowerShell is installed, check for the following value in the registry:
Key Location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\PowerShellEngine
Value Name: PowerShellVersion
Value Type: REG_SZ
Value Data: <1.0 | 2.0>
You can also start different versions<powershell -version 2.0> or <powershell -version 1.0>Thanks,
Darrell Gorter
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August 19th, 2009 4:39am
Windows 7 does include PowerShell. What confuses people is this
PS C:\> Set-Location $PSHOME
PS C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0>
I don't know why the PowerShell Team decided to leave the directory name to v1.0 (may have overlooked this little thing) or by leaving it in v1.0 directory, they avoided upgrade problem ?
August 20th, 2009 6:17am