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I upgraded my PowerShell from 4.0 to 5.0 (Feb. 2016 release) on my Windows 7 SP1 machine.
The $PSVersionTable shows PowerShell 5.0, but the shell does not have the same features as PowerShell 5.0 in Windows 10.
Differences:
Why is there a difference?
How to get/enable these missing features?
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Windows PowerShell 5.0 requires Windows Management Framework 4.0 to be preinstalled on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1.
Teams that run Windows PowerShell 5.1 on non-Windows systems had a way to use Visual Studio Code as the source code editor. PowerShell 7 extends support for Visual Studio Code to both macOS and Linux. PowerShell in Visual Studio Code requires installing an extension, which is explained at this link.
PowerShell 2.0 is integrated in all Windows versions since Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Some features come from the PSReadLine-module that is preinstalled in Win10. You can install this manually from github or by running:
Install-Module PSReadLine
Some features come from Windows 10-enhancements to the console host conhost.exe that is used by default for powershell and cmd. conhost.exeis a part of windows itself and not Windows Management Framework which Powershell is a part of.
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