{"id":202,"date":"2012-12-16T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/port25.io\/?p=202"},"modified":"2013-09-18T11:20:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T07:20:40","slug":"start-powershell-from-the-command-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/start-powershell-from-the-command-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Start PowerShell from the command prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know where I picked this habit from, but whenever I am on Server Core and I need to launch PowerShell I always fire up task manager > start a new task > and type in <code>powershell<\/code>. If I am too lazy I just type in <code>powershell<\/code> in the existing command prompt, but I refrain from doing that as it doesn&#8217;t start a new window &#8211; it just uses the existing command prompt window to launch PowerShell within that (without its blue background color or the window getting re-sized to the bigger size) and I hate that. Both of these are long or ugly ways of launch PowerShell. <\/p>\n<p>But today I remembered the <code>start<\/code> command. And so now I just type <code>start powershell<\/code> in the command prompt and that launches PowerShell as a separate window the way it usually is. Funny how you tend to not think of using the commands you are familiar with into new situations! <\/p>\n<p>Yes I know there are ways to make PowerShell the default shell in Server Core, but I don&#8217;t want to do all that. I prefer having both, with me launching PowerShell whenever I want it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know where I picked this habit from, but whenever I am on Server Core and I need to launch PowerShell I always fire up task manager > start a new task > and type in powershell. If I am too lazy I just type in powershell in the existing command prompt, but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/start-powershell-from-the-command-prompt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Start PowerShell from the command prompt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}