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(AB-168938) Update Windows upgrade info #10511

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description: Information about installing PowerShell on Windows
ms.date: 09/26/2023
ms.date: 10/11/2023
title: Installing PowerShell on Windows
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# Installing PowerShell on Windows
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## Upgrading an existing installation

For best results when upgrading, you should use the same install method you used when you first
installed PowerShell. Each installation method installs PowerShell in a different location. If you
aren't sure how PowerShell was installed, you can compare the installed location with the package
information in this article. If you installed via the MSI package, that information appears in the
installed PowerShell. If you aren't sure how PowerShell was installed, you can check the value of
the `$PSHOME` variable, which always points to the directory containing PowerShell that the current
session is running.

- If the value is `$HOME\.dotnet\tools`, PowerShell was installed with the [.NET Global tool][15].
- If the value is `$Env:ProgramFiles\PowerShell\7`, PowerShell was installed as an
[MSI package][16] or with [Winget][19] on a computer with an X86 or x64 processor.
- If the value starts with `$Env:ProgramFiles\WindowsApps\`, PowerShell was installed as a
[Microsoft Store package][17] or with [Winget][19] on computer with an ARM processor.
- If the value is anything else, it's likely that PowerShell was installed as a [ZIP package][20].

If you installed via the MSI package, that information also appears in the
**Programs and Features** Control Panel.

To determine whether PowerShell may be upgraded with Winget, run the following command:

```powershell
winget list --name PowerShell --upgrade-available
```

If there is an available upgrade, the output indicates the latest available version.

> [!NOTE]
> When upgrading, PowerShell won't upgrade from an LTS version to a non-LTS version. It only
> upgrades to the latest version of LTS, for example, from 7.2.3 to 7.2.15. To upgrade from an
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