Installing PowerShell in Vista

[Guest]

Having read other threads, it's obvious PowerShell works in Vista, but I'm
sure having trouble getting it going. I WAS able to download and install to
my laptop running Windows XP, but the only download I could find for Vista
looks like it's for a pre-release version of Vista. I downloaded and
installed, but I can't find anything on my menu to open it. There is nothing
listed in Control Panel > Programs and Features to uninstall. I tried
installing it again, it seems to install with no problems, but again, how do
I get it started? I'm new to PowerShell, which complicates matters, but at
least on my laptop there's a menu entry I can click, which brings up a
screen, presumably for entering code. My user account has administrator
privileges.

 

[dean-dean]

Are you downloading the Vista version, from here?

32-bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...35-C7DE-46A2-997A-EA58FDFCBA63&displaylang=en

or, 64-bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...7D-5DE6-4AF1-80F4-740F625CD084&displaylang=en

 

[Guest]

Ah HA! I knew I had to be looking in the wrong place. If you do a search on
PowerShell and Vista, the first article to appear is "How to download Windows
PowerShell 1.0". That article explicitly mentions that its for a prelease
version of Vista, and points to Windows6.0-KB923569-x86. I don't remember
what other terms I had in my search that eliminated the version you listed,
but whatever. The link you pointed me to worked fine.

Thank you for your assistance.

 

[dean-dean]

I'm glad it worked. You might, as you are learning about the program, be
interested to know that this newsgroup is available:

microsoft.public.windows.powershell