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Is PowerShell Available?

As PowerShell becomes more important, you may want to automatically check whether it is available on a machine. To determine whether any PowerShell version is available, check whether this key is available: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1

You could do that from within PowerShell, too, but you won't be able to run it if PowerShell isn't available:

Test-Path registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1

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Posted Sep 10 2009, 08:00 AM by ps1

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