PowerShell steps to fix slow startup

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When PowerShell starts to become slow at startup, an update of the .NET framework might be the cause.
To speed up again, use ngen.exe on PowerShell’s assemblies.
It generate native images for an assembly and its dependencies and install them in the Native Images Cache.

Run this as Administrator

$env:PATH = [Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeEnvironment]::GetRuntimeDirectory()
[AppDomain]::CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() | ForEach-Object {
    $path = $_.Location
    if ($path) { 
        $name = Split-Path $path -Leaf
        Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "`r`nRunning ngen.exe on '$name'"
        ngen.exe install $path /nologo
    }
}

Hope that helps

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