{"version":"2.1.321","anchor":"windows-powershell-detection-rejects-store-alias","canonical_anchor":"windows-powershell-detection-rejects-store-alias","heading":"On Windows, Claude Code no longer uses the Microsoft Store stand-in for PowerShell","tier":"notice","area":"Windows","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321\/e\/windows-powershell-detection-rejects-store-alias","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321","markdown":"### On Windows, Claude Code no longer uses the Microsoft Store stand-in for PowerShell\n\nOn Windows, a PowerShell found on PATH that is only a Microsoft Store alias is resolved to the real program or skipped\n\n**What**\n\nOn Windows, Claude Code looks for PowerShell (`pwsh`) on your PATH, the list of folders Windows searches for programs. Sometimes the copy it finds is only a Microsoft Store alias, a small stand-in file that is not the real program. Claude Code now follows that alias to the real program, or skips it when it cannot, instead of using it as found.\n\n**Why**\n\nThe Store stand-in can fail when Claude Code tries to run it, so skipping it avoids a broken PowerShell.\n\n- Area: Windows\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}