{"id":5726,"date":"2013-02-28T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/?p=5726"},"modified":"2013-02-28T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T16:59:29","slug":"how-to-enable-and-disable-powershell-v2-on-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/how-to-enable-and-disable-powershell-v2-on-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable and Disable PowerShell V2 on Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows 8 by default includes PowerShell V3 installed, which is now an essential part of the operating system and cannot be removed. PowerShell V2 on the other hand is a different story. The default installation should have PowerShell v2  installed side by side with V3, but you have the option to remove or add this feature.<\/p>\n

Enabling \/ Disabling PowerShell V2<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

To enable PowerShell V2 in Windows 8, you must go into the Control Panel and select the \u201cPrograms and Features\u201d option.<\/p>\n

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Next click on the \u201cTurn Windows features on or off\u201d link on the left panel:<\/p>\n

\"Turn<\/a><\/p>\n

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When the Windows Features dialog appears, scroll down to Windows PowerShell V2 and uncheck the feature to disable it or check to enable.<\/p>\n

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Once the changes are made, you will need PrimalScript 2012 and PowerShell Studio 2012 to recognize the changes.  Please refer to the What to do when you install a new version of PowerShell<\/a> blog article for instructions on how to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Windows 8 by default includes PowerShell V3 installed, which is now an essential part of the operating system and cannot be removed. PowerShell V2 on the other hand is a different story. The default installation should have PowerShell v2  installed side by side with V3, but you have the option to remove or add this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,25],"tags":[178,146,730,686],"class_list":["post-5726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto","category-windows-powershell","tag-features","tag-powershell-v2","tag-powershell-v3","tag-windows-8"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5760,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}