Question

windows 7 does not activate the path for powershell.

1) C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0 exsists in my path

    C:\GitRepository>path
PATH=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;  C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0; 

2) can’t run powershell from cmd implicitly

    C:\GitRepository>powershell 
'powershell' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

3) but it runs explicitly

   C:\GitRepository>c:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell
Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

PS C:\Users\user\Androidwork\WebDevelopment\GitRepository> exit

C:\Users\user\Androidwork\WebDevelopment\GitRepository> 

Any idea?

Answer 1

Your problem are the spaces in front of the path to PowerShell. Just remove them, i.e.:

PATH=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;