Detection logic for PowerShell installationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/06/25/detection-logic-poweshell-installation.aspx"How do we programmatically detect that PowerShell is installed ?" - This question has started coming up frequently as more folks (both internally and externally) have started to build applications with PowerShell support. As we approach Win7/W2K8-R2en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)re: Detection logic for PoweShell installationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/06/25/detection-logic-poweshell-installation.aspx#9803656Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:30:56 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9803656Pter<p>And what should we use to test it VBScript? LOLL</p>re: Detection logic for PoweShell installationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/06/25/detection-logic-poweshell-installation.aspx#9804917Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:28:35 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9804917Daniel<p>Did you really spell PowerShell wrong in the article title!!</p>re: Detection logic for PowerShell installationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/06/25/detection-logic-poweshell-installation.aspx#9805374Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:46:15 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9805374PowerShellTeam<p>@Daniel - thanks. &nbsp;Fixed now.</p> <p>Enjoy!</p> <p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]</p> <p>Distinguished Engineer</p> <p>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: &nbsp; &nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell">http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell</a></p> <p>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: &nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx</a></p> re: Detection logic for PowerShell installationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/06/25/detection-logic-poweshell-installation.aspx#9820130Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:39:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9820130cz9qvh<p>FYI, the ps installer won't set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\Insall = 1... so if your app is 32 bit and running on 64 bit windows then this method won't work.</p>re: Detection logic for PowerShell installationhttp://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/06/25/detection-logic-poweshell-installation.aspx#9905724Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:34:46 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9905724Ken<p>How do we detect PowerShell 2.0 (but not 1.0) in a manner that won't break when PowerShell 3.0 is released?</p>