The process will use its own environment variables instead of those of the PowerShell session Wait for the process to finish before continuing with the script Specify text file to redirect error output to The location where the process should start in Specifies parameters to use with the process to start Specify the file, application, or process to run We can use the following parameters to start a process: Parameter So let’s take a look at how to use the cmdlet. The only option that you have is to redirect the output to text files. This is one of the downsides of the cmdlet, you can’t redirect the output or error streams to PowerShell. The reason for this is that you can redirect the output of it to PowerShell.

You don’t need to use the Start-Process cmdlet if you need to run a script or other console program synchronously in PowerShell.

It’s designed to run a process asynchronously or to run an application/script elevated (with administrative privileges). The Start-Process cmdlet allows you to run one or multiple processes on your computer from within PowerShell. I will also give you a couple of useful examples to get started. How we can run a process with elevated permissions, run it in a new window, or even completely hidden.

In this article, we are going to take a look at the start-process cmdlet.

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