{"id":4348,"date":"2013-01-10T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/01\/10\/powertip-float-your-powershell-help\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-float-your-powershell-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-float-your-powershell-help\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Float Your PowerShell Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Learn how to create a floating window for your Windows PowerShell Help.<\/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;How can I open Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 Help in a new window without tying up my Windows PowerShell console?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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 the&nbsp;<strong>&ndash;ShowWindow<\/strong>&nbsp;parameter with&nbsp;<strong>Get-Help<\/strong>, as shown here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">help Get-DhcpServerInDC -ShowWindow<\/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:&nbsp;Learn how to create a floating window for your Windows PowerShell Help. &nbsp;How can I open Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 Help in a new window without tying up my Windows PowerShell console? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;&ndash;ShowWindow&nbsp;parameter with&nbsp;Get-Help, as shown here. help Get-DhcpServerInDC -ShowWindow<\/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-4348","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:&nbsp;Learn how to create a floating window for your Windows PowerShell Help. &nbsp;How can I open Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 Help in a new window without tying up my Windows PowerShell console? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;&ndash;ShowWindow&nbsp;parameter with&nbsp;Get-Help, as shown here. help Get-DhcpServerInDC -ShowWindow<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","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=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/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=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}