Summary

Notes on installation of latest Powershell and other tools.

Powershell 7

winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell --source winget

As per https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-windows?view=powershell-7.2#winget

WSL

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

Enable

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart

WSL2

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart

WSL2 Kernel

Download and install the WSL2 Linux Kernel from here: https://aka.ms/wsl2kernel

Open PowerShell as administrator and run: wsl --set-default-version 2

Distro install (Kali)

https://www.kali.org/docs/wsl/win-kex/

Install Kali Linux from the Microsoft Store Run Kali and finish the initial setup

Install Win-KeX kali@kali:~$ sudo apt update kali@kali:~$ kali@kali:~$ sudo apt install -y kali-win-kex

(optional) Install Everything sudo apt install -y kali-linux-large

Kex start

Seamless

kex --sl -s

Windowed

kex --win -s

Enhanced

kex --esm --ip -s