Hey everyone! I've been having this issue where PowerShell takes a while to start up, showing nothing during boot and then suddenly loading after a few seconds. I suspect it's due to some sort of network call since my internet connection is pretty unreliable here in Iran. It feels like it might be checking for updates or something related to licensing. I'm curious if there's a way to prevent these network calls from happening at startup. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
3 Answers
You can disable the startup network calls by setting a couple of environment variables. Check out the documentation for environment variables, and specifically set `$env:POWERSHELL_UPDATECHECK` to 'Off' and `$env:POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT` to 'true' or '1'. It's best to do this as a persistent user-level environment variable using the GUI or system calls since these checks occur before your profile scripts are loaded.
Exactly! Just to clarify, set it like this:
```
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('POWERSHELL_UPDATECHECK', 'Off', 'User')
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT', '1', 'User')
```
This way, it should prevent those annoying checks at startup. If you also use WSL, make sure to use the WSLENV variable to have those settings available across environments.
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