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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Table of ContentsSolutions for PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment(ISE) and Command Line ConsoleUsing Read-Host CmdletUsing Message Box UISolutions for PowerShell Command Line ConsoleUsing ReadKey() Method with/without [void]Using RawUI.ReadKey() MethodUsing cmd /c pause CommandUsing timeout /t CommandSolutions for PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment(ISE) and Command Line ConsoleUsing Read-Host CmdletUse the Read-Host command to enable press any key to continue in PowerShell. Read-Host -Prompt "Press any key to continue..." Press any key to continue...: pressedpressed The Read-Host cmdlet is the most commonly used and easy to understand. We used it to pause execution and prompt the user to get the input line from the PowerShell console. Remember, we must press Enter to exit from the pause mode. Here, the -Prompt parameter was used to specify a prompt’s text, allowing the user to type a string. If the string contains spaces, then enclose it within the quotation marks.We can also use the Read-Host cmdlet to prompt users to get secure data, for instance, passwords, because we can save the received input string as a secure string using the -AsSecureString parameter as follows: Read-Host "Enter a Password" -AsSecureString Remember, the Read-Host can only accept 1022 characters as the input given by the user.Using Message Box UIThis approach is practical when we want to enable only one key to continue in PowerShell. So, to allow that:Use New-Object with the -ComObject parameter to specify the COM object’s programmatic identifier.Use the .Popup() function to display text in a pop-up window. $Shell = New-Object -ComObject "WScript.Shell"$Button = $Shell.Popup("Press OK to continue.", 0, "Hi", 0) We can use the New-Object cmdlet to create an instance of a COM object or .NET framework. We can write either the ProgID of the COM Object or the type of a .NET framework class. For the above code fence, we used New-Object to create an instance of the COM object. Then, we specified the -ComObject parameter with the New-Object cmdlet to write the programmatic identifier (ProgID) of the COM object, which was the WScript.shell and saved the reference in $Shell variable.Next, we used the Popup() method to show text in the pop-up message box. We can only use the Popup() method by chaining it with the WshShell Object, which is $Shell in our case. The .Popup() method took four values; let’s understand them below: strText– Contains a string type value, which is the text message displayed in our pop-up message box. We used Press OK to continue as the value for the strText parameter.nSecondsToWait – It is an optional parameter that contains a numeric value denoting the maximum time (in seconds) to display a pop-up message box. If this parameter is set to 0, which is its default value, the message box will be visible
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