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MVP

Feb 09, 2024

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Get-StartApps : The term 'Get-StartApps' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script

I have a command such as (Get-StartApps | Where-Object name -eq 'Notepad').AppId or just simply Get-StartApps which works just fine via PowerShell ISE. I, on the other h...

Windows PowerShell

LainRobertson
Feb 11, 2024
Daniel_Pineault

The only suggestion I have now is replacing your "powershell.exe" statement with a full path alternative of:

C:\Windows\SysNative\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

Cheers,
Lain

Daniel_Pineault

MVP

Feb 11, 2024

GetPSPath returns:

C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules
M:\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules
C:\Program Files (x86)\WindowsPowerShell\Modules
C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules

Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name StartLayout
returns nothing in the x86 console, but work in the standard console (x64)

ModuleType Version Name ExportedCommands
---------- ------- ---- ----------------
Manifest 1.0.0.2 StartLayout {Export-StartLayout, Import-StartLayout, Export-StartLayou...

LainRobertson

Silver Contributor

Feb 11, 2024

Daniel_Pineault

A fifth (and final) function to quickly check if the instance of Windows PowerShell being launched by Excel is 32-bit (False) or 64-bit (True).

Fifth function (for is64Bit)

Function GetIs64Bit()
    Set Process = CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Exec("powershell.exe -Command ""& { [System.Environment]::Is64BitProcess; }""")
    
    Do While Process.Status = 0
        Application.Wait (Now() + TimeValue("0:00:01"))
    Loop
    
    GetIs64Bit = Process.StdOut.ReadAll
End Function

Output

Cheers,

Lain