Learn how to turn on or off Windows PowerShell script execution using Group Policy or Registry Editor in Windows 11/10. There are mainly two types of scripts.

If you cannot run PowerShell script in Windows 11/10 and see message Cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system, see this post.

Your logon script should be short and self-contained. There be script execution policy issues but since I'm creating the command and know what I'm running, I can explicitly set this PowerShell command ...

That's because PowerShell has a script execution policy which, by default, is set to Restricted. Yep, by default PowerShell won't execute any scripts from the shell.

Set the conditions under which scripts can be run Running this command configures the PowerShell script execution policy, which determines whether the script can run, and if so, under what conditions.

To take advantage of the profile feature to customize your PowerShell environment, you will need to change the execution policy and possibly digitally sign your scripts.

Before you can install these modules, you'll need to run the Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser command to enable PowerShell script execution on your Windows 11 machine.

As always, remember that if you have not run PowerShell scripts on a system, you have to adjust the settings to allow them to run. If Execution-Policy is not already set to allow running scripts ...