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Removes Windows PowerShell snap-ins from the current session.
Remove-PSSnapin [-Name] <string[]> [-PassThru] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
The Remove-PSSnapin cmdlet removes a Windows PowerShell snap-in from the current session. You can use it to remove snap-ins that you have added t
o Windows PowerShell, but you cannot use it to remove the snap-ins that are installed with Windows PowerShell.
After a snap-in is removed from the current session, it is still loaded, but the cmdlets and providers in the snap-in are no longer available in
the session.
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Online versirent session. When the command is complete, the cmdlets and providers that the sn
ap-in supported are not available in the session.
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C:\PS>get-PSSnapIn smp* | remove-PSSnapIn
Description
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This command removes the Windows PowerShell snap-ins that have names beginning with "smp" from the current session.
The command uses the Get-PSSnapin cmdlet to get objects representing the snap-ins. The pipeline operator (|) sends the results to the Remove-PSSn
apin cmdlet, which removes them from the session. The providers and cmdlets that this snap-in supports are no longer available in the session.
When you pipe objects to Remove-PSSnapin, the names of the objects are associated with the Name parameter, which accepts objects from the pipelin
e that have a Name property.
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C:\PS>remove-pssnapin -name *event*
Description
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This command removes all Windows PowerShell snap-ins that have names that include "event". This command specifies the "Name" parameter name, but
the parameter name can be omitted because it is optional.