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mcu
mcu

Reputation: 3512

PowerShell window when started from a batch file

I have a batch file that starts a PowerShell script.

Batch file: 

START Powershell -executionpolicy RemoteSigned -noexit -file "MyScript.ps1"

MyScript.ps1 :

Write-Output "Hello World!"

It works fine, with one exception. The appearance of the window is like the old cmd.exe (black background) and not the PowerShell (blue background).
How can I get the true PowerShell window, if I start it from a batch file?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4736

Answers (3)

Nicolas Blanc
Nicolas Blanc

Reputation: 41

You can invoke powershell so that it starts itself with the script

Powershell.exe -Command "& {Start-Process PowerShell.exe -ArgumentList '-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -noexit -File ""Full_Path_of_MyScript.ps1""'}"

Upvotes: 1

Jeffery Hicks
Jeffery Hicks

Reputation: 943

If you really want a blue background, in your script add code to change the background color.

#save the original
$original=$host.ui.RawUI.BackgroundColor
$front=$host.ui.RawUI.ForegroundColor
$host.ui.RawUI.BackgroundColor="DarkBlue"
$host.ui.RawUI.ForegroundColor="White"
cls
#run your code
dir c:\scripts

#set it back
$host.ui.RawUI.BackgroundColor=$original
$host.ui.RawUI.ForegroundColor=$front

Upvotes: 6

Joey
Joey

Reputation: 354376

That's a property of the shell link in the Start Menu which starts PowerShell, so you'd have to go through that:

start "" "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Windows PowerShell\Windows PowerShell.lnk" ...

It's not pretty, it depends a little on where that resides (and might break on foreign language versions).

Upvotes: 3

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