How do I start PowerShell from Windows Explorer?

Just to add in the reverse as a trick, at a PowerShell prompt you can do:

ii .

or

start .

to open a Windows Explorer window in your current directory.

You can download the inf file from here - Introducing PowerShell Prompt Here

I'm surprised nobody has given this answer, it's the simplest one. (Must be the year.)

Just Shift + right click in Explorer. Then you can "Open PowerShell window here".

It may be set to Command Prompt by default. If so, you can change this in the Windows 10 Settings: go to Personalization -> Taskbar and enable "Replace Command Prompt with Windows PowerShell in the menu when I right-click the start button or press Windows key+X".

Windows 10 made it much easier. You can either:

• SHIFT + Mouse Right Click on a folder, and you get a menu item Open PowerShell window here.

Or you can:

• File -> Open Windows PowerShell.

And for a bonus ...

If you Mouse Right Click on File -> Open Windows PowerShell, then you can Add to Quick Access Toolbar:

Which puts a handy icon here:

And now you can just click that icon. :)

Try the PowerShell PowerToy... It adds a context menu item for Open PowerShell Here.

Or you could create a shortcut that opens PowerShell with the Start In folder being your Projects folder.

There's a Windows Explorer extension made by the dude who makes tools for SVN that will at least open a command prompt window.

I haven't tried it yet, so I don't know if it'll do PowerShell, but I wanted to share the love with my Stack Overflow brethren:

http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/StExBar

I created a fully automated solution to add PS and CMD context items. Just run set_registry.cmd and it will update registry to add two buttons when click RMB on folder or inside some opened folder:

This will change owner of registry keys to admin and add context menus
Change registry to enable PS and CWD context menus

Only this worked for me on Windows 10...

Create a file named PowershellHereContextMenu.reg with the contents below, right click on it and "Merge".

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;
; Add context menu entry to Windows Explorer folders
;
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\powershellmenu]
@="PowerShell Here"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\powershellmenu\command]
@="C:\\\\Windows\\\\system32\\\\WindowsPowerShell\\\\v1.0\\\\powershell.exe -NoExit -Command Set-Location -LiteralPath '%L'"

;
; Add context menu entry to Windows Explorer background
;
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\powershellmenu]
@="PowerShell Here"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\powershellmenu\command]
@="C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe -NoExit -Command Set-Location -LiteralPath '%V'"

;
; Add context menu entry to Windows Explorer drive icons
;
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\powershellmenu]
@="PowerShell Here"
"NoWorkingDirectory"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\powershellmenu\command]
@="C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe -NoExit -Command Set-Location -LiteralPath '%V'"

to run PowerShell as an admin in any location of file explorer go to that folder and use the shortcut "alt + f + s + a" to open powershell as an admin in that specific folder location

You can run the below command on the Windows Explorer address bar to open powershell , and it will open the path to this directory.

powershell.exe -noexit -command "Write-Host "Hello World""