How do I get PowerShell 4 cmdlets such as Test-NetConnection to work on Windows 7?

Question

The situation. On a Windows 7 SP1 machine, I have updated with Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-MultiPkg.msu. Furthermore, in PowerShell $PSVersionTable now reports ‘PSVersion 4.0’.

Answer 1

As far as I know, Windows Server 2008 R2/Windows 7 simply doesn't have the counters that the .NET methods use to implement get-netstuff.

A new PowerShell version can implement hash compare, etc. since this is not related to anything, just a piece of code. But if you want to use, for example, Get-NetTCPConnection there is nothing to show.