{"id":1147,"date":"2014-06-19T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/06\/19\/powertip-unload-all-non-microsoft-modules\/"},"modified":"2014-06-19T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-unload-all-non-microsoft-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-unload-all-non-microsoft-modules\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Unload All Non-Microsoft Modules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn to unload all non-Microsoft Windows PowerShell modules.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;Windows PowerShell is acting funny and I want to unload all modules that are not written by Microsoft. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; How can I easily do this?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use&nbsp;<b>Get-Module<\/b>&nbsp;to find all loaded modules, use the&nbsp;<b>Where-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to filter for authors <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; that do not match Microsoft, and then pipe the results to the&nbsp;<b>Remove-Module<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Module | where Author -notmatch &#039;microsoft&#039; | Remove-Module<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn to unload all non-Microsoft Windows PowerShell modules. &nbsp;Windows PowerShell is acting funny and I want to unload all modules that are not written by Microsoft. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; How can I easily do this? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-Module&nbsp;to find all loaded modules, use the&nbsp;Where-Object&nbsp;cmdlet to filter for authors &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn to unload all non-Microsoft Windows PowerShell modules. &nbsp;Windows PowerShell is acting funny and I want to unload all modules that are not written by Microsoft. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; How can I easily do this? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-Module&nbsp;to find all loaded modules, use the&nbsp;Where-Object&nbsp;cmdlet to filter for authors &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}