Uninstall PowerShell 4.0

[pim]

Does anybody know how to uninstall PoweShell 4.0 in Windows 8.1? It is built-in in the system.

Thanks in advance.

[greenhillmaniac]

4 hours ago, pim said:

Does anybody know how to uninstall PoweShell 4.0 in Windows 8.1? It is built-in in the system.

Thanks in advance.

It's built in, but you can disable it in the "Disable Windows Features" option on the control panel:

[pim]

Thanks Greemhillmaniac but it is PowerShell 4.0 not 2.0. With Disable Windows Features you can uninstall version 2.0 but W8.1 has 4.0 too.

[Mcinwwl]

Quick googling says you cannot uninstall powershell 4.0 from windows 8.1 : https://www.petri.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-powershell

However, if your Windows 8.1 is professional edition or higher, you might disable powershell via gropu policy: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1183987-disabling-powershell-with-group-policy

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To be honest, its more effective to restrict it by user/UO. You should be able to use the Administrative Template "Don't run specified Windows Applications" and put Powershell and the Powershell_ISE for both x86 and x64 in there. 

Edit to add: You can then link it in the OUs that you don't want the users to have access to PS 

Hope this helps.

I have never tried running it, but the policy from the post mentioned certainly exist

[Jody Thornton]

Now can you not remove source files by using the DISM command.  Then when you check the status of features is shows in a command window as "Disabled With Payload Removed"