How To Install PowerShell 7 in Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7
Microsoft has announced general availability of PowerShell 7, so interested users can download and install it. This release contains many improvements and additions, so I suggest you to give it a try.
PowerShell is an advanced form of command prompt. It is extended with a huge set of ready-to-use cmdlets and comes with the ability to use .NET framework/C# in various scenarios. Windows includes a GUI tool, PowerShell ISE, which allows editing and debugging scripts in a useful way.
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PowerShell 7, also known as PowerShell Core, is a cross-platform scripting solution available on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
PowerShell 7 now utilizes .NET Core 3.1, but keeps backward compatibility with modules previously available for the classic PowerShell product. Also, PowerShell introduces a new argument, -UseWindowsPowerShell, to force run a cmdlet under the classic engine.
To Install PowerShell 7 in Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7,
- Visit the PowerShell release page on GitHub.
- For the latest release section, scroll down to Assets and expand them.
- Click on either the PowerShell-7.0.0-win-x64.msi or PowerShell-7.0.0-win-x86.msi file that matches your 32-bit or 64-bit Windows version.
- When downloaded, double-click on the MSI file to execute it.
- Follow the installer steps. You may change the default installation directory if you want, and customize its basic settings.
- If prompted by UAC, click on Yes to approve.
- On the last page, enable the check box Launch PowerShell if you want to open PowerShell 7 now.
You are done.
PowerShell 7 is now available from the context menu in File Explorer, and also has a app group in the Start menu.
PowerShell 7 is a huge step forward for Microsoft. Being the company's first cross-platform edition of the scripting language engine, it also brings new logical operators, a new Get-Error cmdlet to easily handle runtime errors, automatic update check, options for processing structured data in JSON, CSV, and XML formats, and much more.
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I wonder if installing this makes the former Powershell (& Powershell ISE) redundant & they can be uninstalled?