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Paebbels
Paebbels

Reputation: 16221

Why does PowerShell 5 from Windows 7 not have the same features as Windows 10?

I upgraded my PowerShell from 4.0 to 5.0 (Feb. 2016 release) on my Windows 7 SP1 machine.

The $PSVersionTable shows PowerShell 5.0, but the shell does not have the same features as PowerShell 5.0 in Windows 10.

Differences:

Why is there a difference?

How to get/enable these missing features?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1199

Answers (1)

Frode F.
Frode F.

Reputation: 54881

Some features come from the PSReadLine-module that is preinstalled in Win10. You can install this manually from github or by running:

Install-Module PSReadLine

Some features come from Windows 10-enhancements to the console host conhost.exe that is used by default for powershell and cmd. conhost.exeis a part of windows itself and not Windows Management Framework which Powershell is a part of.

Upvotes: 7

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