PowerCLI Fails To Launch

I encountered a strange issue the other day after installing PowerCLI 5.0, as soon as I launched it, it closed.

Troubleshooting

Windows Event Logs for Windows PowerShell, Application and System, revealed erm nothing

Checking the properties of the PowerCLI Shortcut its is launched using the target from C:WindowsSystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0powershell.exe -psc “C:Program FilesVMwareInfrastructurevSphere PowerCLIvim.psc1” -noe -c “. “C:Program FilesVMwareInfrastructurevSphere PowerCLIScriptsInitialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1″”

and Starts in “C:Program FilesVMwareInfrastructurevSphere PowerCLI”

Trying to run the .ps1 from Powershell resulted in ‘the term’Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1’ is not recognized as the term of a cmdlet.

Next, was to go into the Windows Folder C:Program FilesVMwareInfrastructurevSphere PowerCLI and right click Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1 and Run with PowerShell

This time, I received the error message:

‘internal Windows PowerShell error com initialization failed while reading windows PowerShell console file with error 80010106’

Resolution

Googling the issue, I came across this PowerShell forum post which suggested changing the ‘Number of recent items to display in Jump Lists to 10’

After making this change, I was able to launch PowerCLI!