Windows 10: Powershell terminal in VS Code: make : The term 'make' is not recognized as the name of a...

hi, i keep encountering this error for the past 3 months already. I'm using VS Code as my editor, the compiler I installed is MinGW msys. i was testing some code C programs and that happened out of nowhere, it was the first time that happened. Before that, it was working fine with the said compiler and editor. nothing in the internet helped me solve this issue, but hopefully someone can help me with this pls. I'm very new with programming and still learning it. So hopefully someone would guide me thru the technical terms and stuff needed to fix this issue.Thanks so muchalso, I don't know how

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Most windows executable commands not recognized by CMD and PowerShell.

Out of nowhere commands which involve executables like explorer.exe, msedge.exe, mspaint.exe, where, etc. are not working in command prompt or PowerShell. The output of the command prompt seem to be quite simple:

```

C:\Users\grass>where

'where' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.



C:\Users\grass>explorer

'explorer' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

```

I'm still able to call applications in the path, like: idea, code, adb, gcc, etc.

Some things also stopped working, and it looks relevant to this overall terminal issue:

• IntelliJ IDEA cannot launch its in-IDE terminal. In particular it cannot find PowerShell.
  
• I cannot run any windows executables from WSL2 environment.
  
• Oracle virtual box running UBUNTU LTE16.04 has issues syncing shared folders.
  

 

PowerShell Get-AppxPackage command not recognized

I'm using Windows 10 Pro. In PowerShell (run as administrator) when I try to run this command:

Code:

Get-AppxPackage -allusers | foreach {Add-AppxPackage -register "$($_.InstallLocation)\

I get this error:

Get-AppxPackage : The term 'Get-AppxPackage' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

I tried fixing the issue by running the following as administrator:

Code:

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealthsfc /scannow

SFC found no error, dism finished successfully with output saying, "The restore operation completed successfully. The operation completed successfully."

But still I get the same error. I also tried this in Powershell run as admin:

Code:

$manifest = (Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsStore).InstallLocation + '\AppxManifest.xml' ; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $manifest

This also didn't help, it gets the exact same error saying that 'Get-AppxPackage' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file

Any thoughts?

 

Powershell The term '%%' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

I run this code on cmd on win 10

but i get this error

Exception calling "Read" with "3" argument(s): "Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: buffer"
At line:1 char:140
+ ... 5535|%%{0};while(($i = $stream.Read($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length)) -ne 0) ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentNullException
Any ideas why It says that?
I saw some tutorials and it works good on them