Unable to find PowerShell! Doyou have it installed? You can also configure custom installations with the "powershell.powerShellAdditionalExePaths' setting.

[fvalencia12]

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Summary

When I start Visual Studio, I get a message stating "Unable to find PowerShell! Do you have it installed? You can also configure custom installations with the 'powershell.powerShellAdditionalExePaths' setting".
I don't have any custom installations of Power Shell, in fact, I just updated to 7.4.0 to see if this error goes away but no luck.

Below is my version table:
Name Value

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PSVersion 7.4.0
PSEdition Core
GitCommitId 7.4.0
OS Microsoft Windows 10.0.22000
Platform Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion 3.0

Unfortunately, when I try to debug from Visual Studio Code, I get the following errors:

12/27/2023 2:18:32 PM [NORMAL] - Visual Studio Code: v1.85.1 64-bit on Windows 64-bit
12/27/2023 2:18:32 PM [NORMAL] - PowerShell Extension: v2023.8.0
12/27/2023 2:18:32 PM [ERROR] - Error occurred while searching for a PowerShell executable:
TypeError: t.startsWith is not a function
12/27/2023 2:18:32 PM [ERROR] - Unable to find PowerShell! Do you have it installed? You can also configure custom installations with the 'powershell.powerShellAdditionalExePaths' setting.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm dead in the water!

Regards

PowerShell Version

PSVersion                      7.4.0

Visual Studio Code Version

Visual Studio Code: v1.85.1 64-bit on Windows 64-bit

Extension Version

ms-vscode.powershell@2023.11.1

Steps to Reproduce

Open Visual Studio Code

Visuals

No response

Logs

12/27/2023 2:18:32 PM [NORMAL] - Visual Studio Code: v1.85.1 64-bit on Windows 64-bit

12/27/2023 2:18:32 PM [NORMAL] - PowerShell Extension: v2023.8.0

12/27/2023 2:18:32 PM [ERROR] - Error occurred while searching for a PowerShell executable:
TypeError: t.startsWith is not a function

12/27/2023 2:18:32 PM [ERROR] - Unable to find PowerShell! Do you have it installed? You can also configure custom installations with the 'powershell.powerShellAdditionalExePaths' setting.

[fvalencia12]

After reinstalling VS Code and updating power shell packages, I found a settings.json file in my .vscode folder and I deleted it and everything is working now.