A few questions: 1) What version are you running? We had a problem with earlier versions that didn't NGEN and had startup delays. With V2 we made it so you

A few questions: 1) What version are you running? We had a problem with earlier versions that didn't NGEN and had startup delays. With V2 we made it so you can write cmdlets in PowerShell itself which is pretty simple. With V3 we added auto-loading of Modules which allowed Xcopy deployments and simplified discovery. We just released V4 so you might want to give a more recent version a try. 2) What don't you like about the language? Is it just personal preference or are there things you can't do or are too hard to do? Thanks! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Windows Server and System Center