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Didn't work for me, I think you have to prepend with a & so & notepad.exe Which isn't complicated I agree but annoyed me.

• AnIdiotOnTheNet 9y ago
  What version of Powershell are you using? Just typing "notepad" is enough to launch it. The problems with powershell and executables only really come in to play when argument passing, where some escaping is necessary.
  • rb808 9y ago
    3, we still have win7 at work.
    • joeyaiello 9y ago
      You can download and install PowerShell Core 6 completely side-by-side with Windows PowerShell 3.0. We even have a portable ZIP you can drop down wherever: https://github.com/powershell/powershell/releases https://github.com/powershell/powershell/releases
• Arnavion 9y ago
  The only reason to use iex is if the thing you're trying to execute is not directly the name of the process. So you need & for `&'notepad'` and `&$string_variable` but not `notepad`