title: Virtualenv not activating in Windows 10 PowerShell
body: <p>I'm having trouble activating the virtualenv in Windows as I am going through the basic book of Learning Python the Hard Way.  Here is what I am getting:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>PS C:\Users\Owner> virtualenv --system-site-packages .venvs/lpthw</p>
    
    <p>Using base prefix
    'c:\users\owner\appdata\local\programs\python\python36' New
    python executable in C:\Users\Owner.venvs\lpthw\Scripts\python.exe
    Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.</p>
    
    <p>PS C:\Users\Owner> ..venvs\lpthw\Scripts\activate</p>
    
    <p>..venvs\lpthw\Scripts\activate : The term
    '..venvs\lpthw\Scripts\activate' is not recognized as the name of a
    cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling
    of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is
    correct and try again. At line:1 char:1
    + ..venvs\lpthw\Scripts\activate
    + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (..venvs\lpthw\Scripts\activate:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
        + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException</p>
  </blockquote>