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June 15th 12, 08:30 PM
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Windows Power Shell???
I was investigating and reorganizing my Windows start menu's and I was
stupified to find one called "Windows Power Shell". Any ideas what this is? I certainly don't remember having installed this myself and I'm not demented yet... at least I hope... I suppose it may have come unasked with some other software? -- regards, |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os 
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June 15th 12, 08:33 PM
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Windows Power Shell???
"Linea Recta" wrote in message ... I was investigating and reorganizing my Windows start menu's and I was stupified to find one called "Windows Power Shell". Any ideas what this is? I certainly don't remember having installed this myself and I'm not demented yet... at least I hope... I suppose it may have come unasked with some other software? Windows® PowerShell is a new command-line shell and scripting language designed for system administration and automation.
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June 15th 12, 08:45 PM
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Windows Power Shell???
On 15 Jun 2012, "Linea Recta" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: I was investigating and reorganizing my Windows start menu's and I was stupified to find one called "Windows Power Shell". Any ideas what this is? I certainly don't remember having installed this myself and I'm not demented yet... at least I hope... I suppose it may have come unasked with some other software? Windows Powershell is a kind of super batch scripting language. I don't think it came installed with XP originally, so you must have installed it at some later time. I believe it's now a standard feature of Vista and later. I have it installed, but I have yet to delve very far into it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
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June 15th 12, 08:51 PM
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Windows Power Shell???
"Nil" schreef in bericht
... On 15 Jun 2012, "Linea Recta" wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: I was investigating and reorganizing my Windows start menu's and I was stupified to find one called "Windows Power Shell". Any ideas what this is? I certainly don't remember having installed this myself and I'm not demented yet... at least I hope... I suppose it may have come unasked with some other software? Windows Powershell is a kind of super batch scripting language. I don't think it came installed with XP originally, so you must have installed it at some later time. I believe it's now a standard feature of Vista and later. I have it installed, but I have yet to delve very far into it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell I'm absolutely puzzled how it came on my XP machine... -- regards, |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os
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June 15th 12, 09:59 PM
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Windows Power Shell???
On 15 Jun 2012, "Linea Recta" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: I'm absolutely puzzled how it came on my XP machine... Seems to me it was at one time presented as an optional download from Windows Update. That might explain it.
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June 16th 12, 01:03 AM
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Windows Power Shell???
Linea Recta wrote:
I was investigating and reorganizing my Windows start menu's and I was stupified to find one called "Windows Power Shell". Any ideas what this is? I certainly don't remember having installed this myself and I'm not demented yet... at least I hope... I suppose it may have come unasked with some other software? Google still works: http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+powershell First hit was a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell It came as a non-critical update presented at the Windows Update site. It is your choice to install it or not. If you don't want it (and don't expect anything you install or scripts you use from elsewhere to require its presence) then choose to hide it in the list of Windows updates. Alas, you might still end up getting it as it is bundled with other MS software since admin-level scripts for the product might use PowerShell. It gets installed under C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell. The installers destination path is not user configurable. So how big is that folder on your host? Mine is pretty small at under 9 MB. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928439
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June 16th 12, 07:13 AM
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Windows Power Shell???
"Linea Recta" wrote in message ... I was investigating and reorganizing my Windows start menu's and I was stupified to find one called "Windows Power Shell". Any ideas what this is? I certainly don't remember having installed this myself and I'm not demented yet... at least I hope... I suppose it may have come unasked with some other software? Windows Power Shell and Windows Movie Maker Was install with SP3 update... "C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\moviemk.exe"
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June 16th 12, 01:33 PM
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Windows Power Shell???
"000-222-000" wrote in message
... "Linea Recta" wrote in message ... I was investigating and reorganizing my Windows start menu's and I was stupified to find one called "Windows Power Shell". Any ideas what this is? I certainly don't remember having installed this myself and I'm not demented yet... at least I hope... I suppose it may have come unasked with some other software? Windows Power Shell and Windows Movie Maker Was install with SP3 update... "C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\moviemk.exe" What are you talking about? PowerShell did not come with XP SP3. It has to be specifically installed as a separate optional download and has nothing to do with any XP service pack. Likewise, Windows Movie Maker came with Windows XP long before there were any XP service packs. Additionally, there is no relationship between PowerShell and Movie Maker. -- Glen Ventura MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+
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