When opening either powershell or powershell ISE it take easily over a minute for either to be ready to use. I will also be very slow running commands. something as simple as Get-PSDrive takes at least a minute or more to run. I am currently running Win 7 x64. PSshell version 5…0.10514.6

Check your $profile file. See if there’s any functions trying to load at start up. Also check $env:PSModulePath and see if you a network paths in there. That slows down PowerShell and intellisense a lot.

thank you for the response. I checked my Profile file and there was nothing but a command to set dir to C:. I just deleted it. $env:PSModulePath returns C:\user\xxxxx\documents\WindowsPowershell\modules:C:\Windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\modules Power shell still running very slow. Since…

get-module shows only 4 installed modules.

What about your .NET install? not sure but since PowerShell depends/uses the .NET framework maybe something is funky there.

Did you check all 4 profiles? Description Path Current User, Current Host $Home[My ]Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Profile.ps1 Current User, All Hosts $Home[My ]Documents\Profile.ps1 All Users, Current Host $PsHome\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 All Users, All Hosts $…

What does Get-Module -ListAvailable show?

Ivan I am now running MS .net framework 4.6.2. Tried upgrading and it did not help. Rob all modules are in C:\Windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\modules two are Manifest and one is Script Will Get-Module -ListAvailable shows 2 modules in Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules …

Are you using roaming profiles? Also, try downloading PowerShell v6 and see how that behaves on your machine. PowerShell v6

Ben I am not using roaming profiles. Can Windows 7 run powershell V6? I see downloads for Windows 8.1 and 10 but not 7.

Powershell and Powershell ISE start is very slow. over a minute to load.

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will-anderson July 17, 2017, 1:11pm 4

How many modules do you have installed?

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Powershell and Powershell ISE start is very slow. over a minute to load.

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