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I'm stumped over this issue with PowerShell.

I used Update-Help cmdlet and it does nothing at all. The cursor is blinking and it's not downloading the help files. It's not doing anything at all.

I am using PowerShell 5.1 and right-clicked on it to run as an administrator. I have Windows 10.

At least I can use Get-Help <-cmdlet> -online to lookup cmdlets, but I'd like to have help files downloaded and be able to use just PowerShell for help without going to Google.

Picard90
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Try, as admin in the consolehost and in the ISE.

Update-Help -verbose -force

Otherwise, try one of these approaches..

PowerTip: Save Offline Version of PowerShell Help

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/powertip-save-offline-version-of-powershell-help

Files for Updatable Help for Windows PowerShell module Microsoft.PowerShell.Host

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36475

Download PowerShell help library for all modules to a text file

Ever wanted to download the entire PowerShell help library for all the modules on your e-book reader -or mobile device? You can use this script to do just that. It copies all the help content to a text file, which saves to the c:\ drive.I am looping through all the PowerShell help

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Dumping-the-entire-help-to-3db9e0f1

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