Where can I download Powershell 2.0 for Windows 7?

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I have spent the better part of a day hunting the Internet looking forr a way to download Powershell 2.0 to my already Win7 environment. Windows 7 is supposed to come with PS 2.0 however - I have 1.0.

How do you upgrade Powershell when there is no download made specifically for Windows 7?

It's weird that your Windows 7 has the version 1.0 when by default it has to have version 2.0. Any idea how this happened? Anyway just to confirm try running the command $psversiontable. If this command gives a result, you have version 2.0. — Thomas, Jun 27 '11 at 14:22

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '11 at 14:31

I suspect that you really have 2.0. The 2.0 version installs in a directory named 1.0 which often causes this confusion. In a PS session type:

$host.version

And I suspect that you will see:

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
2      0      -1     -1

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '11 at 14:21

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Check out the top link to download it:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd772288

answered Jun 27 '11 at 14:21

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 28 '11 at 00:33

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PowerShell 2.0 ships with Windows 7 in the box.

Version 2.0 is integrated with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and is released for Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista with Service Pack 1.

Quoted from Wikipedia

edited Jun 28 '11 at 00:33

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answered Jun 27 '11 at 18:16

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Where can I download Powershell 2.0 for Windows 7?

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