Powershell on Tobias Theel | Senior Software Engineerhttps://blog.noobygames.de/tags/powershell/Recent content in Powershell on Tobias Theel | Senior Software EngineerHugoen-usSun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000Windows 11 Still Defaults to PowerShell 5.1 — And Why That's a Problemhttps://blog.noobygames.de/blog/upgrade-powershell-7/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.noobygames.de/blog/upgrade-powershell-7/<p>Windows 11 is a modern operating system. Its terminal, however, defaults to a shell from 2016.</p> <p>When you open PowerShell on a fresh Windows 11 install, you get <strong>Windows PowerShell 5.1</strong> — a version built on the old .NET Framework 4.x, permanently frozen in time, and officially in <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/powershell-support-lifecycle">maintenance mode</a> since 2018. Microsoft has not added features to it since then and will not.</p> <p>I ran into this the hard way when setting up <a href="https://ohmyposh.dev">Oh My Posh</a> on a fresh machine — a prompt customization framework that promises beautiful, informative terminal prompts. On PowerShell 5.1, it either threw errors or rendered garbled symbols:</p>