Windows PowerShell ISE is a GUI-based application. You can use it to wite, run, and edit multiple scripts and commands in different tabs.

Shell ISE provides a user-friendly environment for writing and running PowerShell scripts. Let's first examine how to access it on Windows computers and familiarize ourselves with its interface: 1.

In that case, here’s a quick rundown to run PowerShell scripts using PowerShell ISE. Open Windows PowerShell ISE using the Windows Search bar and ensure to run it as an administrator.

Search for Windows PowerShell ISE, right-click the top result, and select the Run as administrator option. Click the File menu. Select the New option to create a new empty ".ps1" file.

If you're using the PowerShell Interactive Scripting Environment, a Microsoft tool to develop PowerShell code, you can use this environment to run your PowerShell scripts. To launch the ISE, type ...

As you can see in the figure, the –File switch allows you to run a script as you launch PowerShell. Therefore, if I wanted to launch my Hello.ps1 script from the Run prompt, then I could do so ...

Your scripts still run as native PowerShell, but are encapsulated into an EXE file. To quote the Microsoft Web page referenced above, ...

(The only exception is if you run the contents of the script within Visual Studio Code or PowerShell ISE.) How to run PowerShell script file on Windows 11/10.