Path to Powershell exe v 2 0

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Where is the Powershell  version 2 0  located  What is the path to Powershell exe  I have Windows Server 2008 and Powershell installed  When I look at this folder   PS C  Windows System32 WindowsPowerShell gt  dir       Directory  C  Windows System32 WindowsPowerShell   Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name ----                -------------     ------ ---- d----         20 4 2010     17 09            v1 0   I have only Powershell v1 0  But when I type   PS C   gt   Host version  Major  Minor  Build  Revision -----  -----  -----  -------- 2      0      -1     -1   PS C   gt    It shows that I have v2 0 installed

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I believe it s in C  Windows System32 WindowsPowershell v1 0   In order to confuse the innocent  MS kept it in a directory labeled  v1 0   Running this on Windows 7 and checking the version number via  Host Version  Determine installed PowerShell version  shows it s 2 0   Another option is type  PSVersionTable at the command prompt  If you are running v2 0  the output will be   Name                           Value ----                           ----- CLRVersion                     2 0 50727 4927 BuildVersion                   6 1 7600 16385 PSVersion                      2 0 WSManStackVersion              2 0 PSCompatibleVersions            1 0  2 0  SerializationVersion           1 1 0 1 PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2 1   If you re running version 1 0  the variable doesn t exist and there will be no output   Localization PowerShell version 1 0  2 0  3 0  4 0    64 bits version  C  Windows System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0  32 bits version  C  Windows SysWOW64 WindowsPowerShell v1 0

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I think  PsHome has the information you re after    PS     PsHome C  Windows System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0  PS    Get-Help about automatic variables  TOPIC     about Automatic Variables

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Here is one way      Get-Process powershell   select -First 1  Path   Here is possibly a better way  as it returns the first hit on the path  just like if you had ran Powershell from a command prompt      Get-Command powershell exe  Definition

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It is always C  Windows System32 WindowsPowershell v1 0  It was left like that for backward compability is what I heard or read somewhere

[powershell] Path to Powershell.exe (v 2.0)

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