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Originally Posted by Dodman

Thanks. Unfortunately, my laptop is running Windows 8 and doesn’t seem to have PowerShell at all, let alone PowerShell 5.

Probably too late now but I'd suggest updating Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 (see Update to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8 for instructions. After that, you can install Windows Management Framework 5.1 which will bring Powershell up to version 5.