Let’s assume your default startup profile is set as Command Prompt, but you want to open Windows PowerShell. At such a moment, you can use the context menu option to open Windows PowerShell in Windows ...

Last year, I wrote a lesson on working with the ENV: PSDrive. I still encourage students to use $ENV:Computername to get the local computer name instead of using ...

In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...

Microsoft has released Windows Terminal v0.9, which adds command-line arguments, automatic creation of PowerShell profiles, and a new setting that you lets you close all tabs without confirmation.

Windows Terminal is available in Microsoft Store. Hence, if you do not find it on your system, you can install it from there. After installing, you can open, customize and configure Windows Terminal ...

In PowerShell, an alias is a handy shortcut or command alternative. For example, instead of typing Get-ChildItem, you can type ls or dir. Aliases can act as a transition from other shells to ...