Sunday, November 01, 2009

Dude, Where's My Powershell 2.0?

Yesterday, I installed PowerShell 2.0 but encountered some issues that had me scratching my head. After I installed it, I couldn't find it.

I grabbed the latest installer listed on download page and ran it. It completed and then... nothing. I checked under my start menu and I couldn't see any new items. I found the PowerShell 1.0 directory (C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0) but I couldn't find a 2.0 directory. It looked as if the installer didn't install 2.0 at all!

After reading the release notes and some fussing, I found out that 2.0 was, in fact, installed. The short cuts are placed unders 'All Programs' > 'Accessories' and the new files are installed in the 1.0 directory over the previous version.

I wonder if anyone else was confused by this.

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