[6u54wuwu5w]

So, while I applaud this, I am concerned about the startup time of ps as compared to the old command prompt. Has it been improved recently?

[richard_todd]

Funny, that was my first thought as well. Sometimes I start cmd.exe instead of powershell on rotating-disk machines because of the startup time. On SSDs I find the startup time is negligible.

[Aldo_MX]

That's my biggest concern, I actively avoid PS just because I can't tolerate its startup time.

[louhike]

It's better but it's still slower than CMD on my computers.

[algorithmsRcool]

In particular if you have left the prompt window untouched for a few hours and it has been paged out. Just pressing <tab> to complete a file name will hang for 3-6 seconds on my computer while PS wakes back up.

CMD is always instantaneous.

I realize that PS is doing a lot more work to match commands but sometimes simple is all that is needed.

[JeffreySnover]

Major improvements in V5.

Even more in V5.1 (which ships with WS2016).

But still slower than CMD.

CMD starts very quickly but then you have CMD. :-)

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]

[zamalek]

Still slower than cmd, fast enough that I'm actively trying to unlearn the cmd muscle memory.