Today when I was recording a Podcast, me and my co-hosts got into a discussion about if it was possible to replace cmd with Powershell in Windows (The reason for the discussion is that the keycombination Win + R, cmd, Enter is ingraved in our spine)… turns out it is 🙂

New-Item “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\cmd.exe” | Set-ItemProperty -Name “(default)” -Value “C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe”

If you want to revert just use:

remove-Item “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\cmd.exe”

Happy Powershelling

Johan