When you are working with PowerShell in your daily work it might be worth considering pinning PowerShell to the taskbar. By doing this you have easy access using either the the mouse of the keyboard hotkeys.
By placing PowerShell in the first location on the taskbar you will have the following hotkeys available:
| Description of action | Key Combination | |
| Open new (non-administrative) PowerShell console if not open already, otherwise cycle through open consoles | <WIN> 1 | |
| Open new Administrative PowerShell console if not open already, otherwise cycle through open consoles | <CTRL> <SHIFT><WIN> 1 | |
| Open new (non-administrative) PowerShell console even if a console is already open | <WIN> <SHIFT> 1 | |
Open the context menu, allows for opening:
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<WIN> <ALT> 1 | |
Using the mouse you have the following, similar, options available to you. Similar to the keyboard combinations:
| Description of action | Mouse Combination | |
| Open new (non-administrative) PowerShell console if not open already, otherwise cycle through open consoles | Click | |
| Open new (non-administrative) PowerShell console even if a console is already open | <SHIFT> Click | |
| Open new Administrative PowerShell console even if a console is already open | <CTRL> <SHIFT> Click | |
Open the context menu, allows for opening:
|
RightClick | |
Using these key combinations allows you to access PowerShell faster and no mouse-clicking will be required anymore.
