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How to check PowerShell version in Windows 11

Finding your version of PowerShell will help you find out which PowerShell features you have access to. The PowerShell command lets you specify a version number, and we'll show you how.

How to find out the installed version of PowerShell

There is a PowerShell utility to find the version number, which is what we are going to use.

First, press Win+x and select “Windows Terminal”:

In the Windows Terminal window that opens, enter the following command and press Enter:

$PSVersionTable

PowerShell displays various numbers. Here, the first value "PSVersion" is your version of PowerShell.

You can now close the PowerShell window.

How to install the latest version of PowerShell

By default, all versions of Windows, even the latest Windows 11, provided with PowerShell 5, although the current version is PowerShell 7. To install it, see “How to install the latest PowerShell on Windows 11”.

How to check the built-in PowerShell version

If you installed PowerShell 6 or 7, you now have two versions at the same time on your system: PowerShell 5 and the latest. Windows Terminal can use any of these versions by default.

To find out your built-in PowerShell version, open the Start menu, search for “Windows PowerShell”, and click it in the search results.

In the PowerShell window that opens, enter the following command and press Enter:

$PSVersionTable

Or, no matter how you opened the command line, you can find out the versions with the following command sequences.

To check the built-in PowerShell version:

powershell
$PSVersionTable

To find out the version of PowerShell installed:

pwsh
$PSVersionTable

If the “pwsh” command is not found, then try “pwsh-preview”.

How to update the built-in version of PowerShell

Windows 10 updates the built-in PowerShell tool when installing system updates. This means that you should regularly update your computer to always use the latest version of PowerShell.


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