title: Why is PowerShell "not recognized" when installing Chocolatey?
body: <p>I went to the <a href="https://chocolatey.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Chocolatey website</a> and copied the text for installing it and pasted into the administrator <code>cmd.exe</code> (using Windows&nbsp;7). When I run the command I get:</p>
  
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    <p>'powershell' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.</p>
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  <p>This <a href="https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/Installation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GitHub article</a> with Chocolatey installation instructions says:</p>
  
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    <p>This really is the easiest method because it requires no configuration of PowerShell prior to executing it.</p>
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