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Sorry about that - we lost control of our startup times in PS V3 and have been working to get it back under control. PowerShell V5 had substantial improvements but we keep working on it and V5.1 is even faster. Give it a try - I think you'll like it.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]

I really hope so!

I basically stopped using ps ( for smaller stuff) because the startup tone is so awful.

I'm not entirely sure if you're joking or not (one of the hazards of the textual communication medium). Yes, piping objects is fun and occasionally very useful, but waiting ten seconds to pop a terminal so I can run `ipconfig` or something is not so useful.

Are you actually able to not be confused by piping objects? In Unix everything is a string so I just pipe text to sort and then unique...etc. PS always complains relentlessly. The GUI features and .NET integration is nice though.