Installing PowerShell 6 On Windows

The best place to download PowerShell 6 is from the PowerShell GitHub community. The link for the community is https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell. There are several platforms you can see on this link for which you can download the PowerShell installer. The list of platforms as of now are shown here:

Before installing, review the How to Install instructions set for the specific platform. For Windows, the installation is very straightforward. Download the MSI installer and run the installer. By default, it will be installed in C:\Program Files\PowerShell\. Now to run, just open the file explorer and navigate to the C:\Program Files\PowerShell\6.0.0-beta.2 directory. You may have a different directory structure, so follow what you see there after the install. Right-click on powershell.exe , and run it as an administrator or simply double-click on it. That's it. PowerShell 6 is running on your machine. You can pin powershell.exe to the taskbar for a quick run. You can make use of the Get-Host cmdlet to check the installed version.