How to start PowerShell 3.0?

Question

I installed CTP for Windows Management Framework 3.0, which includes PowerShell 3.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27548

But now I can’t figure out how to start PowerShell 3.0. I do not see the new PowerShell installation folder with the powershell.exe executable.

Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

Once you have installed CTP, when you start Powershell, it starts v3.0.

You can execute $PSVersionTable to confirm.

If you want to run the v2.0 engine, you can do powershell -version 2.0

Note that Powershell, as with v2.0, is still installed in the v1.0 folder.

Answer 2

You will not receive a new folder. Just start Powershell, as usual after installation, and you should start V3. Run get-host and it should tell you that your version number is 3.0.