Running commands in powershell

[glass iris]

Hello, I have been running powershell commands through cmd
For example: cmd /C powershell Get-AppPackage
But I have noticed that it takes a lot more time to execute as compared to running the command in powershell itself
So I am wondering if there is a way to run commands in powershell directly to reduce the time it takes to execute

[exotic imp]

PowerShell Start-Process -FilePath <path-to-executable>

[glass iris]

I want to run powershell commands though just like in example

[placid current]

Start-Process is a powershell command

just replace it with Get-AppPackage for your example

[glass iris]

It does take a few seconds before executing the command

This could be a problem with windows trying to launch powershell maybe

[placid current]

probably yeah

if you spawn a powershell terminal it's pretty slow (for me) too

[glass iris]

That's why I was thinking why can't we run the commands directly in powershell(through the code)

[placid current]

yeah, but it's powershell itself taking so long to start, not the shell (what i meant in my message) or cmd.exe (from your initial message)

though tbf, cmd.exe tends to be slower to start powershell then starting powershell directly

but since powershell is so slow it's probably not noticable

you could also try the -NoProfile flag to check if your user profile slows it down (mine slows it down quite a lot because i run a few scripts)

[glass iris]

Tried that didn't help me much

Although I tried using ngen on powershell assemblies that did help me speed up

But I can't just use ngen in the user's desktop so that's not a viable solution in my case